The Australian Cartoonists Association held their convention this weekend and as part of the gathering presented The 2025 Stanleys, more formally known as The Stan Cross Awards, to cartoonists in various categories. To paraphrase Peter Broelman: Eight Stanleys were awarded for Book Illustrator, Caricaturist, Comic Book Artist, Comic Strip Cartoonist, Editorial/Political Cartoonist, Event Cartoonist, Illustrator […]
The Walkley Foundation reveals the finalists of the 70th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. “Australia’s pre-eminent national journalism awards, recognise and reward the best in the craft and set the industry standard for excellence.” … eligible entries [were] published or broadcast between 20 August, 2024 and 18 August 2025. For the most important […]
With Lalo Alcaraz, Peter Arno and Michael Maslin, Roz Chast, Jason Chatfield, Nate Powell, Joe Sacco and Patrick McDonnell.Lalo Alcaraz is a Top 40 Feedspot lists the “Top 40 Socal Mexican Influencers in 2025” and Lalo Alcaraz makes the cut. Bio CALÓ News Cartoonist, AMS, RFK 2025 winner, Herb Block 22, 2x Pulitzer finalist, ASU […]
The New York Comic Con weekend begins today (Comics Beat covers it in full). Mostly comic books but as usual there are comic strip related projects taking place. Like the Comics Kingdom booth. The National Cartoonists Society will also be there with members showing up throughout the run.The New York Comic Con also issues the […]
*A government action “that could never happen here.”We start with a couple Letters to the Editor. To the Cleveland Plain Dealer: When it comes to the Comey indictment, cartoonist Dana Summers has trouble telling R’s from D’s Editorial cartoonist Dana Summers, in his “Payback” cartoon in the Sept. 29 Plain Dealer, apparently believes the indictment […]
Everywhere around the world… Zehra ÖmeroğluIt was back in May we reported: Cartoonists Rights has bestowed the 2025 Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award 2025 on Zehra Ömeroğlu, a Turkish cartoonist, who has been the target of criminal prosecution for a cartoon that was published in 2020 and faces a three year prison sentence. Well […]
Cartoon CommentarySteve May reacts to his first whiff of the new “Cartoonist” fragrance from Esquire and Michael Malul.A Man of Many Talents Dave Brown, long time cartoonist for The Independent, has the touch in other arts as witnessed by his win of the Sculpture/3D Prize at the Broadway Arts Festival Open Art Competition 2025.CartoonStock’s AI […]
Featuring Lorenzo Mattotti, Sergio Aragonés, Jason Chatfield. Rick Stromoski, Drew Litton, MAD, Arch Dale, and Mark Knight.Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art The National Cartoonists Society and Lakes International Comic Art Festival have announced Lorenzo Mattotti as the winner of the Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art. The Sergio Aragonés International Award for […]
At last weekend’s 2025 CXC festival honored a few comics creators with their annual awards. For 2025 awards were handed out to Charles Burns, Matt Feazell, Gigi Murakami, and Bud Plant. From Total Apex Entertainment: CXC 2025 Master Cartoonist: Charles Burns Charles Burns, whose name is virtually synonymous with boundary-pushing graphic novels, was awarded the […]
Steamboat Willie in court; Watership Down in France; Patron the Dog out in Ukraine; and a brand new “Cartoonist” fragrance joins Journalist and Editor-in-Chief.Law Firm Takes Disney to Court over PD Steamboat Willie Use Mickey’s century-old steamboat finds itself in hot water, as Orlando-based law firm Morgan & Morgan has filed a lawsuit (published online […]
A couple hundred photos of this year’s 79th Reuben Awards weekend have been posted. David Folkman and Robert Pollack through Hogan’s Alley present about a hundred pictures.And the National Cartoonists Society has dropped another hundred or so to Dropbox and want more.
The Society of Illustrators’ 2025 Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony & Dinner is coming up on October 9, 2025. Society of Illustrators Hall of FameThe Daily Cartoonist noted the Hall of Fame Laureates back in April when they were first announced. Recently The Society has announced other awards for 2025. Whether these will be presented […]
The Chinese have their water torture and the Australians, well the National Cartoon Gallery anyway, have their own form of torment. This year’s Rotary Cartoon Awards were held two weeks ago but the disclosure of the winning cartoonists and the runners-up were announced one day at a time since the ceremony. But we finally have […]
The 2025 Ignatz Awards were presented at the end of The Small Press Expo in Rockville, MD. The winners are below along with the cover of their work.Outstanding AnthologyOutstanding ArtistOutstanding CollectionOutstanding ComicOutstanding Graphic NovelOutstanding MinicomicOutstanding Online ComicOutstanding SeriesOutstanding StoryPromising New TalentThe Ignatz Award recognizes outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning and honors “exceptional work that […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) is holding its annual convention this weekend and, unlike previous recent gatherings our own Mike Peterson is not reporting from the convention floor this year. So we are relying on the cartoonists’ social media platforms to inform us of what is happening. Courtesy of AAEC President Marc Murphy‘s […]