This year’s Glyph Comics Award winners have been announced, and Keith Knight, creator of the newly launched Knight Life comic has been honored with Best Comic Strip for his comic The K Chronicles.Other winners include: Story of the Year: Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm; Percy Carey, writer, Ronald Wimberly, artist Best Writer: James Sturm, […]
The Daily News (Philadelphia, PA) editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has been awarded this year’s Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for editorial cartooning. Regarding her cartoon, judges wrote her cartoons were instrumental in moving the issue of violence in disadvantaged neighborhoods and schools to the top of the city’s agenda. Her cartoons offer a “steady drumbeat […]
After over 12,000 votes cast, this year’s Eagles Award winners have been announced. Frank Cho, creator of Liberty Meadows was voted favorite comic artist in the pencils category. A complete list of winners follows:Roll of Honour – Mike MignolaFavourite Newcomer Writer – Matt FractionFavourite Newcomer Artist – David AjaFavourite Comics Writer – Alan MooreFavourite Comics […]
Serge Chapleau, editorial cartoonist for the La Presse, has been awarded his sixth National Newspaper Award for editorial cartooning. You can see his work at his paper’s web site.
Bruce Mackinnon, editorial cartoonist for the The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, NS, has been honored with this year’s Atlantic Journalism Award for editorial cartooning. The AJA recognizes journalistic excellence and achievement in print and electronic news media in Atlantic Canada. Finalists for the award include Michael de Adder of the The Daily News (Halifax, NS) […]
Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett has won this year’s Thomas Nast Award for best cartoons on international affairs from the Overseas Press Club of America. The award was given for a portfolio of work while he was at The Christian Science Monitor.The judges noted, “his cartoons do what all great cartoons do: […]
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) announced the winner of the first annual Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship, Juana Medina, a sophomore at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Medina edged out almost two hundred applicants for the award, which includes a $5,000.00 scholarship and a trip to the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award convention. […]
Sam Ayres, student editorial cartoonist for the Yale Daily News has been awarded this year’s AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award for best college cartoonist according to E&P.Sam is a Junior studying English and Political Science. He was a runner up to last year’s award. He’ll be honored at this year’s AAEC convention in San Antonio, TX […]
As mentioned back in January, Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Dick Locher will be inducted into the Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame this Thursday evening in a black tie affair in Geneva, IL. The honor was created to recognize artists affiliated with Fox Valley by birth, education, residence or service that have “achieved international or […]
Anchorage Daily News editorial cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Shohl was honored last Saturday night with Alaska Press Club’s First Amendment Award. In the nomination letter, his former editorial page editor wrote the following: Nearly three decades later, they still do. When Parkinson’s disease threatened his drawing capabilities, Peter learned new computer techniques and actually expanded his repertoire. […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson was named this year’s Best Cartoonist by The Washington City Paper – a local best of for the Washington D.C. area.Regarding Richard, they write: Thompson is a local institution-in addition to scads of magazine work, his “Richard’s Poor Almanack” is one of the few things in the Saturday Post […]
Liberty Meadows creator Frank Cho has been nominated for an Eagle Award for his pencil work on the Mighty Avengers comic book. Also nominated in the “Favourite Comic Artists: Pencils” include Bryan Hitch, Ethan Van Sciver, Frank Quitely and Thomas Boatwright.
Investor’s Business Daily editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez has won this year’s Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning. The announcement comes one week after Michael was awarded this year’s Pulitzer.
The Week, a news and opinion magazine, has named Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich as Editorial Cartoonist of the Year for the second year in a row.
Clay Bennett, editorial cartoonist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, is one of this year’s Pulitzer Prize finalists and in doing, I believe, has set the record for the most number of times being honored as a finalist in the category of editorial cartooning – a record of six times (1999-2003, 2008). He won journalism’s […]