Scripps Howard Foundation has tapped Michael Ramirez as the best editorial cartoonist for 2006. He gets $10,000 and a trophy. Runners up are Mike Luckovich (who won this years Headliner’s award) and Kevin Kallagher (KAL). Interesting that two of the three best cartoonists this year were let go from their papers. Ramirez? work reflects his […]
Scripps Howard Foundation has announced it’s National Journalism awards including the Charles M. Schulz award for best college cartoonist. This years honor goes to Russell Gottwaldt.Russell Gottwaldt, F Newsmagazine, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, receives $10,000 and the Charles M. Schulz award. Gottwaldt is experimenting with writing and drawing a multi-paged editorial […]
According to Jim Borgman’s blog, he is up for two Reubens this year. Got some good news from the National Cartoonists Society yesterday. The Awards Chairman, Dave Coverly (Speedbump) called to tell me I’m one of three finalists for the NCS’s Editorial Cartooning award for 2006. The other two are Mike Ramirez (late of the […]
Dan Piraro will receive the Ongoing Commitment Award at the 20th Annual Genesis Awards. The Genesis awards is put on by The Humane Society of the United States. Dan won the a Genesis award in 2002 for Outstanding Cartooning.“Over the years, we have been proud to recognize Dan Piraro’s stunning work with Genesis Awards and […]
Editor and Publisher posted a story of who and what will catch the eye of the Pulitzer Prize judges this year. In the area of editorial cartooning, E&P makes the following conjecture:As for Editorial Cartoonists, those having especially good years in 2005 included Nick Anderson of The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky.; Jeff Danziger of the […]
According to Darrin Bell’s blog, his feature “Candorville” has been nominated for the first annual Glyph Award. The Glyph awards “recognizes the best in comics made by, for, and about people of color … who have made the greatest contributions to the comics medium in terms of both critical and commercial impact.”From Darrin’s blog:This is […]
Jeff Danziger has taken home the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.Jules Feiffer, one of three judges for this year’s contest, said Danziger’s cartoons “have a sense of literary intelligence.” The former Village Voice/Universal Press Syndicate cartoonist added that the Herblock Prize winner’s Iraq War commentary is “the closest thing to the feeling Bill Mauldin gave […]
The Greenwich Post’s editorial cartoonists Bobbi Eggers and Jane Condon have taken home the bronze in the New England Press Association Better Newspaper Contest this year in editorial cartooning. The Greenwich Post is a weekly paper serving Greenwich CT. Staff reporter Ken Borsuk took home third place for Business Reporting, staff photographer David Ames won […]
I’m not seeing any official announcements, but this story from the Philippine Daily Inquirer mentions the three winners of the 2005 Ranan Lurie UN Award. The top winners of the 2005 Lurie Awards were Gerald Mayer Hofer of Austria, David Pope of Australia and Osamni Simanca of Brazil, who were awarded the first, second and […]
John Deering, editorial cartoonist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, has been honored by the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission for his sculpture “Testament” which depticts the Little Rock Nine who integrated Central High School in 1957. The award is called the Drum Major award. Every year the commission singles out individuals who shared the same […]
Alan MacBain, a freelance editorial cartoonist with The Mercury (Pottstown, PA) since 1984, was one of three who took home awards for excellence by the Suburban Newspapers of America.Freelance cartoonist Alan MacBain won first place in the editorial cartoon category for his “Harrisburgers” cartoon, one in a series chronicling the saga of the Pennsylvania lawmakers? […]
Pat Brady, creator of Rose is Rose is one of the judges for the Scripps Howard Fundation’s annual journalism awards.The Scripps Howard Foundation has announced the names of 43 journalists, media professionals and educators who will judge this year’s National Journalism Awards competition. The awards program honors excellence in 17 print, electronic and journalism education […]
If you’ve done a great cartoon on the topic of call centers, or have a good idea (the cartoon does not have to be published) you might want to enter the Contact Center Cartoon Contest. You get $1 for every vote your cartoon gets with the winning cartoonist taking an additional $3,000 home. Second and […]
Canadian editorial cartoonists wishing to compete in the annual Atlantic Journalism Awards need to have their entries postmarked no later than January 31 of this year.Atlantic Canadian journalists are reminded to submit their print, radio and television stories and images to the 25th Atlantic Journalism Awards. The entries should be postmarked no later than Tuesday, […]
From E&P: In the “Best Print Comic Strip” category, winners were “This Modern World” by the self-syndicated Tom Tomorrow (About.com’s choice) and “Doonesbury” by Garry Trudeau of Universal Press Syndicate (“People’s Pick”). Winners for “Best Web Cartoons” were Chris Muir’s “Day by Day” (About.com’s choice) and Charles Fincher’s “The Illustrated Daily Scribble” (“People’s Pick”).