Robert Ariail, the editorial cartoonist for The State (SC), has won this year’s Green Eyeshade award for editorial cartooning. The award is a a regional (11 state) SPJ award for outstanding journalism. This is Robert’s fifth Green Eyeshade award.
Chicago Sun-Times editorial cartoonist Jack Higgins took top honors for editorial cartooning in the Herman Kogan Media Awards for a series of cartoons he did on the topic of political corruption. The prize is a $1000 scholarship in his name to a school of his choice.
Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury, will be honored tomorrow at the ninth annual Ken Book Awards breakfast for his book, The War Within: One More Step at a Time. Garry receives his award for “outstanding literary contributions to a better understanding of mental illness.”
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau is scheduled to speak at the Muhlenberg College commencement on May 20th where he will also receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters.Hat tip to E&P.
Bad Reporter cartoonist Don Asmussen has won the Best of the West award for editorial cartooning. The award is sponsored by First Amendment Funding – an Arizona non-profit group with an aim to promote freedom of information. Also placing second in this award is Dave Horsey of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and third place goes to […]
Signe Wilkinson, editorial cartoonist for the Daily News has been awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Thomas Nast Award for international cartooning – her third time for this award.Congratulations, Signe.
State University of New York College at Brockport editorial cartoonist Kory Merritt has been awarded this year’s AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award for best college editorial cartoonist.As the designated winner, he’ll receive a free trip to this year’s AAEC convention in Washington D.C.First Runner-up for the award was Sam Ayres, of Yale University, and Nathan Rohde, […]
Walt Handelsman, editorial cartoonist for Newsday is this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartooning – his second such prize (the first was with the Times-Picayune in 1997). The Pulitzer committee said Handelsman’s was worthy of the high prize because of “his stark, sophisticated cartoons and his impressive use of zany animation.”This seemed to the […]
Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks animated TV show has won a Peabody Award for his “Return of the King” installment that depicted Martin Luther King, Jr, reawakening to today’s cultural society of gangsta rap and the war on terror.The awards will be presented on June 4th in New York City.
The Denver Post editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe has won this year’s Fischetti Award. Receiving honorable mention are Clay Bennett of the Christian Science Monitor and Steve Sack of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The three will attend the awards ceremony in Chicago on April 30. While in Chicago, the three will participate in a panel discussion, […]
The National Cartoonist Society has announced the nominees for the various awards that will be given out during the Reuben weekend May 27th in Orlando this year. Here is the breakdown on who’s up for what: Cartoonist of the Year Bill Amend Dave Coverly Dan Piraro Feature Animation Peter De Seve, Character Design (Fox) “Ice […]
A congratulations are in order for Phil Hands who has won the 2006 Wisconsin Excellence in Journalism award for best single editorial cartoon. Phil is at the Wisconsin State Journal. Placing second in that contest is Joe Heller who cartoons at the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
Erin Russell, a senior at the University of Michigan, has won the Charles M. Schulz Award for college cartooning. Her comic strip Jaded Joy runs in The Michigan Daily and is described as a comic that “chronicles the drama of a spirited 7 year-old girl named Joy, who is intelligent, independent, keenly observant, and a […]
Mike Luckovich, the two time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, has won the National Headliners Award for the second straight year according to E&P. Second and third place went to Matt Davies (The Journal-News) and Adam Zyglis (The Buffalo News). The National Headliners Award is the first big prize for editorial cartooning to be announced […]
Arizona Republic editorial cartoonist Steve Benson has been awarded the Scripps Howard Foundation’s National Journalism Award for editorial cartooning. Steve takes home a hefty $10,000 and a trophy. His portfolio included cartoons regarding “the Iraq War, the tragedy of Darfur, lobbyist influence at the White House, bigotry and the failure of response to Katrina.”UPDATE: I […]