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Via: Mike Rhode

Glenn Fleishman writes about the uptick in recognition for Matt Bors who was honored this year as a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Herblock Award winner and the SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Award.He’s scruffy, doesn’t own a suit, and lives in Portland. He expresses withering contempt at politicians, mainstream media, and what he views as hypocrisy. He’s […]

The Herblock Award was last week in which Matt Bors was honored for his editorial cartooning. Below is his speech.Michael Cavna attended and has posted a write-up.

Last week I posted news that an editorial cartoon by Lexington Herald-Leader cartoonist Joel Pett enraged University of Kentucky for criticizing coach John Calipari for ending UK’s annual series with Indiana.Joel describes returning from Washington DC where he helped the Cartoonists Rights Network committee to select a worthy Courage in Cartooning Award for a cartoonist […]

Knoxville News Sentinel editorial cartoonist Charlie Daniel, will be honored next week at a luncheon hosted the by Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy for his “long and illustrious career.” The event is being sponsored by Senator Baker and his wife, Senator Nancy Kassebaum.

Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) has announced they are awarding their 2012 Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award to Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat and Aseem Trivedi, from India. CNRI is dedicated to defending the human rights of cartoonists who are threatened due to their work. Ali gained international notoriety after Syrian government thugs tried to silence […]

From The Quad blog at The New York Times:“You can draw all the cartoons you want about things like the global plight of women and it’s this kind of thing that gets people going,” Pett said in a telephone interview Tuesday. To the Kentucky faithful, Pett is raining on their championship parade by criticizing Calipari. […]

The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights has announced this year’s winners of the RFK Book and Journalism Award. In the category of cartooning the honor went to Stephanie McMillan for her series The Beginning of the American Fall and her environmentally themed editorial cartoons entitled Code Green. Michael Cavna interviews Stephanie […]

Today marks the 258th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die” cartoon – often thought of as the first editorial cartoon in the Americas. It was published in the Pennsylvania Gazette as a rallying cry unity among the colonies.May the profession continue for many more years and cartoons with labels many more years beyond that.

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists annual convention will be held in Washington DC this year on September 13–15. This year’s convention will follow a somewhat different format than in the past. Thursday and Friday will center on “#!&% CARTOONS: A Festival Celebrating the Political Cartoon.” The festival will feature “chalk talk” presentations by various […]

The Overseas Press Club of America has awarded this year’s Thomas Nast Award to Swiss cartoonist Patrick Chapatte who draws for the Geneva daily Le Temps and Zurich paper the NZZ am Sonntag. According to World Radio Switzerland, this is the first time a non-American has received the award.

Farhad Manjoo, writing on Slate.com, isn’t impressed with the Pulitzer Prize going to editorial cartooning and argues that the award should go to really good political infographics. The backwardness of political cartoons is especially evident when you compare them to the bounty of new forms of graphical political commentary on the Web. My Facebook and […]

Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist for Politico, has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Matt was a finalist in 2009 and 2010 for the Pulitzer and a past recipient of Herblock Prize.Judges note his award was given “for his consistently fresh, funny cartoons, especially memorable for lampooning the partisan conflict that engulfed Washington.”Finalists this […]

In my haste to report that Matt Bors had won the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award, I neglected to note the award was also given to Marty Two Bulls (different circulation category). Marty is the editorial cartoonist for the Indian Country Today Media Network. He’s worked as a commercial designer and graphic […]

Indianapolis Star editorial cartoonist Gary Varvel has been honored with this year’s National Headliners Award.You can see his award entry cartoons on the Indystar.com website.Second and third place went to Jeff Koterba (Omaha World-Herald) and Nate Beeler (The Washington Examiner) respectively.