Finalists Named for 2021 NCS Divisional Awards
The National Cartoonists Society has revealed the finalists for the various Divisional Awards for their 76th Annual Reuben Dinner. All of these divisions were juried by regional NCS chapters and specialty juries. The results were tallied to arrive at these final nominees. The nominees for 2021 creativity are: Comic Book: Trish Forstner; Gideon Kendall; David […]
Posted on: May 27, 2022, Section: AAEC-feed, Animation, Awards, Books, Comic Books, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Graphic Novels, Greeting Cards, Illustration, Magazine cartoons, National Cartoonist Society, Reuben, Comments: 1 Comment
The Art of Jim Morin
For Jim Morin, all art is political. As the editorial cartoonist at the Miami Herald for 42 years, Morin created witty, often biting cartoons that are nationally and internationally syndicated, and he’s received the Pulitzer Prize in journalism for editorial cartooning twice over, once in 1996 and again in 2017. If you’ve opened a newspaper […]
Posted on: May 27, 2022, Section: AAEC-feed, Editorial cartooning, Exhibits, Comments: 0 Comments
Clay Jones On His RFK Award…and Uvalde
Clay Jones: What are the odds that on the same day I receive a journalism award from a human rights organization, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization, for a cartoon on school shootings that’s there’s another school shooting? In this country where politicians refuse to do anything to stop mass shootings and end the […]
Posted on: May 25, 2022, Section: AAEC-feed, Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
Clay Jones Wins 2022 RFK Cartoon Award
Founded by the reporters who covered Robert F. Kennedy’s historic 1968 presidential campaign, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards honor outstanding reporting on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy’s concerns, including human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world. Clay Jones was presented with the 2022 […]
Posted on: May 24, 2022, Section: AAEC-feed, Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 3 Comments
35 Pulitzer Cartoonists Sign Protest Letter to Pulitzer Prize Board – update
May 24 edit: Since this letter was fired off last week, more Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists have signed on to the protest, including 2020 winner Barry Blitt, and Pat Bagley, the longest-employed staff cartoonist at a daily newspaper.] Original May 20 report: Ten days after the 2022 Pulitzer Prizes were announced, 33 35 cartoonists […]
Posted on: May 24, 2022, Section: AAEC, AAEC-feed, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
CRT Hits The Herblock Prize (Lalo Alzcaraz Won)
The Caucasian Replacement Theory is making its way into American Awards*. Like many prestigious awards that recognize great accomplishment in this country, the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning, created in 2004 to commemorate the legacy of the late Washington Post cartoonist Herb Block, had never been offered to a nonwhite person—until this year. While accepting […]
Posted on: May 18, 2022, Section: AAEC-feed, Awards, Comic history, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Register for RFK and OPC Cartoon Award Events
The Overseas Press Club of America (OPC), who announced their Cartoon Award for 2021 efforts this past March, is featuring a Zoom event with past award winners. Join this “How I Did It” program with Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher, who has won many of the OPC’s Best Cartoon Awards over the years, as he discusses his work […]
Posted on: May 17, 2022, Section: AAEC-feed, Awards, Editorial cartooning, Events, Comments: 0 Comments
Ruben Bolling Wins 2021 Berryman Award
Ruben Bolling, author of the “Tom the Dancing Bug” satirical weekly cartoon strip, has won the 2021 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons from the National Press Foundation. He accepted the award at the National Press Foundation’s May 4, 2022 awards dinner in Washington, D.C. The judges cited Bolling’s mordant wit, […]
Posted on: May 11, 2022, Section: AAEC-feed, Awards, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Comments: Comments Off on Ruben Bolling Wins 2021 Berryman Award
AAEC Writes Open Letter to The Pulitzer Board
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has presented a proposal to the Board of The Pulitzer Prizes making the case for a return of the traditional Editorial Cartooning category. This year The Pulitzer Prize Board replaced the (now-defunct) Editorial Cartooning category with the category called Illustrated Reporting and Commentary the definitions of which, […]
Posted on: May 10, 2022, Section: AAEC-feed, Editorial cartooning, Pulitzer Prize, Comments: 1 Comment
Eli Valley’s Visceral Political Cartoons
If you’ve been online, and especially on Twitter, then you probably know the name Eli Valley and his brushy drawings that use the grotesque and absurd to make larger points about life, culture, and politics. But it wasn’t until the Trump administration that the New York City-based cartoonist was propelled into the public spotlight. Valley […]
Posted on: May 10, 2022, Section: AAEC-feed, Editorial cartooning, Comments: Comments Off on Eli Valley’s Visceral Political Cartoons
Azim, Del Col, Adams, and Hickey Awarded the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary Pulitzer
Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams and Walt Hickey of Insider for a comic on a Uyghur internment camp have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. From the announcement: Illustrated Reporting and Commentary Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams and Walt Hickey of Insider, New York, N.Y. Finalists: Ann […]
Posted on: May 9, 2022, Section: AAEC-feed, Comic Books, Editorial cartooning, Pulitzer Prize, Comments: Comments Off on Azim, Del Col, Adams, and Hickey Awarded the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary Pulitzer
Bruce MacKinnon Wins National Newspaper Award
The 2021 National Newspaper Awards were announced May 6, 2022 in Toronto. Bruce MacKinnon of the Halifax Chronicle Herald, for the seventh time, won the National Newspaper Award for Editorial Cartooning for the year 2021. Michael de Adder (Halifax Chronicle Herald/Toronto Star) and Graeme MacKay (Hamilton Spectator) were named finalists. All the […]
Posted on: May 7, 2022, Section: AAEC-feed, Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: Comments Off on Bruce MacKinnon Wins National Newspaper Award
Clay Jones – They Call Him The Streak
On May 6, 2017, editorial cartoonist Clay Jones began a journey he wasn’t aware he was starting. He posted his day’s cartoon on GoComics like usual, and then the next day posted another, followed by another, and another—until he looked up five years later and realized he hadn’t missed a single day. While many creators […]
Posted on: May 6, 2022, Section: AAEC-feed, Editorial cartooning, Comments: Comments Off on Clay Jones – They Call Him The Streak
Anderson Answers – A Counterpoint Debriefing
The news of Counterpoint Media creating a new syndication division brought some questions with it. Counterpoint founder Nick Anderson was kind enough to answer a few of the questions we had. Foremost among concerns was, with this added to Nick’s schedule, it would slow his cartoon output. Said Nick: I will absolutely continue cartooning. I’m […]
Posted on: May 5, 2022, Section: AAEC-feed, Comic strips, Counterpoint Licensing and Syndication, Editorial cartooning, WPWG, Comments: 1 Comment
Counterpoint Licensing and Syndication Begins with Washington Post Writers Group Cartoonists
There’s a new syndicate in town! Counterpoint Media to Launch New Cartoon Syndication Platform The expansion into syndication will broaden Counterpoint’s mission to support independent political cartooning. From Counterpoint Media Group comes news of a new syndicate – Counterpoint Licensing and Syndication. Counterpoint Media, an independent organization of political cartoonists of all perspectives, will […]
Posted on: May 5, 2022, Section: AAEC-feed, Counterpoint Licensing and Syndication, Editorial cartooning, Syndicates, Comments: Comments Off on Counterpoint Licensing and Syndication Begins with Washington Post Writers Group Cartoonists