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 […]
In the category of Editorial Cartooning, the Pulitzer Board has announced this year’s winner to be Michael Ramirez of The Investor’s Business Daily. This is Michael’s second Pulitzer, the first being in 1994 while at the Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn).Michael has had a very successful year so far. He was also awarded this year’s Fischetti […]
Tom Batiuk creator of the comic feature Funky Winkerbean is one of the three finalists for this year’s Pulitzer Prize. This is the fourth time a comic strip has been considered for American journalism’s top prize. Two previous comic strippers have won the prize Garry Trudeau (1975) and Berkeley Breathed (1987).According to the judges, Tom’s […]
Whilst sitting at the bar at the next AAEC convention, you can dazzle your peers with some interesting statistics regarding the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.Two comic strips have won the Pulitzer for editorial cartooning: Berkeley Breathed (1987) Garry Trudeau (1975) Only two female editorial cartoonists have won: Ann Telnaes (2001) Signe Wilkinson (1992) Five […]
Far Side creator Gary Larson will be honored for his contributions to journalism and his Alma Mater, Washington Sate University. He, along with the editor of the Yakima Herald-Republic will be added to the WSU Eduard R. Murrow School of Communications Hall of Achievement.
Paul Gilligan, creator of Pooch Cafe has posted the submission he used when entering the NCS division award for newspaper comic strips. For the comic strip category of the NCS Awards they ask entrants to submit 12 strips from the latest year. Iâ??ve sort of gleaned that 6 dailies and 6 Sundays is probably the […]