Congrats to a bunch of aspiring cartoonists. From a press release off of Universal Presses web site: Student Cartoonists’ Awards Announced Kansas City, MO (12/05/2005) Four first place winners were selected among many aspiring young cartoonists who participated in the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) /Associate Collegiate Press Cartooning (ACP) Awards, co-sponsored by Universal Press […]
The United Nations Correspondents Association will announce the winners of its 2005 UNCA Awards tonight at their annual Dinner and Dance.Of interest to editorial cartoonists is the Ranan Lurie Award for political cartooning ($10k to the winner). The UNCA Awards were established in 1995 to encourage in depth coverage of the United Nations and its […]
Congrats to Jimmy Margulies. NEW YORK Jimmy Margulies has won the Berryman Award for editorial cartooning from the National Press Foundation. The award, which comes with a $2,500 cash prize, will be presented to Margulies Feb. 23 in Washington, D.C.
Editorialcartoonists.com has posted the deadlines and links to all the major editorial cartooning awards. Best of luck.
The 4th annual Weasel awards, part of Dilbert.com, have been posted and the “Weaseliest Individual” is George W.
E&P has a blurp on David Horsey and his winning of the The Population Institute’s Global Media Awards for Excellence in Population Reporting. I’m sure he’ll be placing this one next to his 2003 Pulitzer Prize.Link
Signe Wilkinson, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and editorial board member of the Philadelphia Daily News, will receive our 2005 Media Excellence Award. Signe will inform and entertain us with a slide show of her incisive cartoons, caricature, and commentary. Link
North County Times editorial cartoonist Mark Thornhill took first place in the annual San Diego Press Club banquet for his editorial cartoon entitled: “The Incredibles.”
Dilbert creator, Scott Adams, is searching for the weaseliest people for his annual award.Once again, “Dilbert” comic strip creator Scott Adams is asking his fans to expose this year’s “weaseliest” people and corporations by casting votes in his Fourth Annual Dilbert Weasel Awards. Polls are open through Nov. 6 on Dilbert.com. Results will be announced […]
Speaking of cartoonists and their motivations, the Advocate is running a lengthy story on Ranan Lurie, his political cartoons and what he hopes to accomplish with a soon to be unveiled painting at the U.N.“The Uniting Painting,” initiated nearly 40 years ago at Lurie’s former home in Stamford, will be unveiled Nov. 1 in a […]
David Fitzsimmons, editorial cartoonist for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, has been awarded the Lee Spirit Award which “recognizes outstanding citizenship and personal commitment to the community and Lee” (Lee being the owner of 58 daily papers across the country). In the past year, he made 118 personal appearances, before crowds as small as […]