The Pulitzer Prize organization has announced the 2019 winners. The 2019 winner in the Editorial Cartooning category is Darrin Bell.“For beautiful and daring editorial cartoons that took on issues affecting disenfranchised communities calling out lies, hypocrisy, and fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration.” Finalists for the Editorial Cartooning category are: Ken Fisher, drawing […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for this year’s Reuben Award.National Cartoonists Society members have nominated the top five finalists for the 2018 NCS Reuben Award for “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year”. Ballots have been sent out to all voting NCS members this week, and the Reuben Award will be presented to the […]
The National Newspaper Awards is the trade name of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Awards Programme Administration Corporation, a not-for-profit body which governs the awards program. Finalists for Editorial Cartooning: • Michael de Adder, Halifax Chronicle-Herald/Brunswick News/Toronto Star. • Brian Gable, Globe and Mail. • Garnotte (Michel Garneau), Le Devoir. A couple National Newspaper Awards notes: Brian Gable […]
The 2018 National Cartoonists Society Divisional Award nominees for the 73rd Annual NCS Reuben Awards! The winners will be announced on May 18th, 2019 in Huntington Beach, CA. The National Cartoonists Society
Whhhiirrrrr…clik…clik…clik…clak Awards The Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to announce the nominees for the seventh annual Cartoonist Studio Prize. The winner in each of our categories will be announced April 12. Each winner will receive $1,000 and eternal glory. On the shortlist of nominees for Best Web Comic of the […]
The National Women’s Hall of Fame announced their 2019 inductees. Cartoonist Rose O’Neill of Kewpies fame was among the chosen.From the Hall’s O’Neill profile: Rose O’Neill: (1874-1944) As a successful artist, writer, businesswoman, and philanthropist, Rose boldly assisted with the activities of the woman suffrage movements coordinated by the National Woman’s Suffrage Association headquartered in New […]
Matt Davies, editorial cartoonist for Newsday, has won all the big awards in his profession, so the only thing to do now is start repeating.Matt Davies is the editorial cartoonist for Newsday in NY and has won both the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism prize. In 2004 he was awarded […]
People in the military all know what a challenge coin is, but few civilians do. A challenge, or unit, coin is a medallion that represents affiliation, support or patronage to the organization minted on the coin. Almost all military units have their own coins, carried by the members of the units, and commanders often have […]
Here are just SOME of the cartooning awards and details on submissions and deadlines. After easy holiday days it is time to get frantic if planning to enter some of these. The Jay Kennedy Memorial ScholarshipDEADLINE: ENTRIES MUST BE POSTMARKED BY JANUARY 7, 2019Only days left to enter this scholarship given to the cartoonist judged the […]
above: last year’s Comic Strip Stanley Award to Gary ClarkThe Australian Cartoonists’ Association is holding its annual Stanley Awards and Cartoonists Conference this weekend in Canberra (or maybe its going on right now, isn’t Australia, like, three or four days ahead of the U.S.?)The Stanley Awards are Australia’s equivalent of the United States’ National […]
Editorial cartoonists Mike Luckovich, Mike Ramirez and Gary Varvel will all be recipients of the 2018 Advancing American Democracy Award. The award is given by the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site and past winners have included author Ron Chernow and Senator Richard Luger. The three cartoonists will receive the award at an event at The Conrad Indianapolis hotel […]
The Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia has announced that New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast is to receive their “Visionary Woman Award”. From their site:Since joining The New Yorker in 1978, Roz Chast has established herself as one of our greatest artistic chroniclers of the anxieties, superstitions, furies, insecurities and surreal imaginings of modern life. Her […]
Charis Jackson Barrios has won the 2018 John Locher Memorial Award.The John Locher Memorial Award is a contest for aspiring cartoonists, ages 18-25, whose work demonstrates both clear opinions and strong artistry on political and social topics. Single panel, multi-panel, and animated editorial cartoons and comics [are] accepted.“Charis is producing well-crafted, smart, affecting comics that […]
If you missed Ward Sutton getting the Herblock Prize last night, don’t worry. Bruce Guthrie was there with his camera and is sharing the pictures.The Prizeand The Young Man who won it.photos © Bruce GuthrieBruce Guthrie’s photo gallery of The Presentation is here.Bruce Guthrie’s photo gallery of The Reception is here.hat tip to Mike Rhode’s […]
The Thurber House, who sponsor the Thurber Prize named after cartoonist and writer James Thurber, has announced this year’s three finalists. They are New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast, actress-writer Annabelle Gurwitch and novelist Julie Schumacher. With three women in the running, the award will go to a woman for the first time in its nearly […]