In celebration of the quasquicentennial when California legislators repealed their anti-cartoon law the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has decided to return to that state’s capitol for the organization’s 2026 convention. From the AAEC: This year, Association of American Editorial Cartoonists are taking over California’s capital. We will have an internal schedule for AAEC-members […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has issued a statement about the arrest of Don Lemon: There’s a reason free speech and freedom of the press are the first of the essential liberties enshrined as the Bill of Rights in our Constitution. If people aren’t free to speak and assemble and if the press isn’t […]
Some upcoming events that may be in your area of interest. With Harry Bliss, Edward Gorey, Al Hirschfeld, Ralph Steadman, William H. Walker, and a supporting cast of thousands including members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and The Usual Gang of Idiots.Motion Lines: How Cartoonists Draw Movement Featuring over 100 examples from the […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has set up hotel booking and registration for their 2025 Convention being held at Bethseda Maryland from September 11th through the 14th. The lineups for workshops, panels, and events are still in the early stages for both conventions. From the AAEC: Our confab starts Thursday, September 11, with […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has announced they will be joining the line-up at this year’s Small Press Expo (SPX) in September.From the announcement: Many editorial cartoonists are familiar with the long-running cartoon arts festival in Bethesda, Maryland, especially those from the alt-weekly side of the business. Its Director, Warren Bernard, is one […]
Nous sommes ici, at the AAEC and ACC Convention in Montreal, and I’m gradually re-learning to shift from English to French and back again as well as recalling that once you find the place you’re looking for and then find a place to park, you have forgotten how to get where you were going. Fortunately, […]
As we’ve reported, Saturday night the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) announced their annual award winners at their convention in San Francisco. To the surprise and delight of us three here at The Daily Cartoonist, we, along with The Washington Post reporter Michael Cavna, The Nib cartoonist and publisher Matt Bors, and AAEC volunteer/organizer […]
I’m back from the AAEC Convention in San Francisco, recovering from a red-eye flight and very late with today’s posting. I’m also realizing that, while a lot of the convention consisted of socializing, which is a good thing, there was a day of intense presentations that can’t be summed up in a single post.So we’ll […]
With the news of Artificial Intelligence bursting into the creative arts the Society of Illustrators, the National Cartoonists Society, and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists have issued statements on the matter.From the Society of Illustrators:From the National Cartoonists Society:From the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists:
The AAEC panel on “Cartooning in a Post-Truth World” was, as noted yesterday, dynamic enough to justify separate treatment, and much of that was in the balance of the group.With AAEC President Kevin Necessary moderating, the panel consisted of Marc Murphy, who cartoons for the Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, the local public media outlet and a […]
My day yesterday began at a CXC event, with a session on James Sturm, a cartoonist of substantial background and current production, best known in my neighborhood as the founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT, which is just across the river from me.Oddly enough, though we’re only four or […]
The first day of the AAEC Conference began with a long business meeting and ended, alas, with the discovery that my camera had been lying to me all day long. So it goes.But backlighting and shadows are appropriate here because they probably shouldn’t have even let a non-voting associate in, and, like most such meetings, […]
As we’re discussing, debating and dissecting the current state and potential future of cartooning, Will Henry is going off in his own direction with Wallace the Brave (AMS), in which he has created a distinctive cast of characters but is not content to have them do setups and punchlines every day.Today’s strip is a good […]
Well, I stand by yesterday’s post, and I’m glad that it — and JP Trostle’s “epic rant” — got said before Columbia University and their Pulitzer Committee delivered that stunning mean-girl snub because otherwise it might sound like sour grapes.As I wrote thenThe Pulitzers do reward good work. But they’re still just plaques, and the […]
Maria Scrivan is a pretty upbeat person, which makes today’s Half Full (AMS) particularly striking, because behind those lovely doughnuts she packs an exasperated punch.Having worked in both advertising and commentary, I’m aware that there is nothing you can say, however plain, however obvious, that someone won’t misinterpret or, as in her cartoon, completely miss […]