I’m assuming that anyone who’d be interested in entering this competition is already informed of the coming deadline, but for the sake of complete coverage…The deadline for the National Press Foundation’s Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning is this Friday (Oct. 6).
Chris Britt of the The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Illinois won first place for editorial cartoon in the latest Illinois Press Association competition.
Those of you who read BorgBlog regularly, know that it offers a rich variety of Jim�s sketches, thought processes and comments that don�t appear in print. Even most of his print cartoons now appear in the blog long before they ever go on the press.Check out the complete list at http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/003723.php.
From E&P comes news that Jerry Robinson will be the keynote speaker this Saturday at the Harvey Awards. Jerry is a past president of the NCS, founder of the Cartoonists & Writers Syndicate, as well as a former comic book artist who created Joker and named Robin in the Batman series.
The Florida Press Club Excellence in Journalism contest winners have been announced. The editorial cartoonists who are taking home plaques this year are:
E&P has a pretty good behind the scenes story that was first reported by R.C. Harvey. Is it goes, Mike Luckovich’s Reuben trophy did not arrive in Chicago in time for the award ceremony and so NCS organizers dropped back to plan ‘B’ – borrow a trophy from a previous award winner.
Steve Moore, creator of In the Bleachers, has received the inaugural Certificate of Recognition from the Boston University Athletic Training Program for his “[accuracy] in his portrayal of the athletic training profession.
Leigh Rubin’s Rubes collection book “The Wild Life of Cats” has won two humor awards according to E&P. The first award is a merit prize from Midwest Book Awards and the other is a bronze award by ForeWord magazine’s Book of the Year.
From Editorialcartoonists.com comes news that Stephan Templeton has won first place in editorial cartooning in the 2006 Excellence in Journalism Award from the Philadelphia Society of Professional Journalists. Templeton draws for the Intelligencer.
Additionally, SW Parra has taken first place in editorial cartooning from the 2005 Better Newspapers Contents by the California Newspaper Publishers Association.
On the surface one would wonder why the Vietnam Veteran’s of America would ever give an unapologetic anti-war activist, Garry Trudeau an award, but last week, Garry received the President’s Award for Excellence in the Arts for his work to support the soldiers who have little control over where and when they are deployed around the world.
The Cartoon Network?s animated series, “Boondocks,”has been nominated for a 2006 Teen Choice Award in the category of ?Choice TV Show: Animated.? The series is based on Aaron McGruder?s comic strip, The Boondocks, syndicated by Universal Press. McGruder serves as creator and executive producer of the show.
Editorial cartoonist Patrick O’Connor won first-place at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 48th Southern California Journalism Awards banquet Saturday night.O’Connor was honored for his cartoon titled “Undocumented Workers.”
From the Toledo Blade comes a snippet of good news for Kirk Walters, their editorial cartoonist, who was awarded “Best in Ohio” by the Press Club of Cleveland’s 28th annual Excellence in Journalism competition.
For the last three years I took an active part in various cartoon competitions around the globe (just a month ago I was awarded by the Award of Excellence at the National Press Club of Canada International Cartoon Contest.) As a byproduct of all these activities I have got tons of info about cartoon competitions, awards, professional cartoonists etc. So the idea to create a free, available for everybody informational service came naturally.The site map is very simple, I practically do not provide graphic, concentrated on the content.
From Star Pulse blog and a Universal Press press release comes news that Aaron McGruder is trying to get an Emmy for his Boondocks television show by shaming the producers through a series of advertisements…. But, f**k it, we’ll try anyway.”Apparently the ads are geared to remind those involved in the Emmys that African-Americans have not faired well in the annual ceremony.We’ll see how it goes.