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The Herblock Foundation has announced that this year’s winner of the Herblock Prize is Baltimore Sun and The Economist editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher .From the Herblock Foundation: In a distinguished career that spans more than 36 years, KAL has created over 8,000 cartoons and 140 magazine covers. His resume includes six collections of his […]

Someone has posted an hour interview with HERBLOCK about his book “Herblock: A Cartoonist’s Life”. Discussed: history, cartoons, civil rights, Mccarthyism, Nixon

The Herblock Foundation has posted video of this year’s winner, Jen Sorenson, acceptance speech.

The brouhaha over San Diego Clippers owner Donald Sterling took a bad turn for cartoonists yesterday when NBA Commissioner Adam Sterling hit him with a $2.5 million fine (the maximum allowed) and a lifetime ban from the league, meaning that, while they couldn’t actually force him to sell the team, they could forbid him to […]

Pardon My Planet is a flashback not just to my days in an office, but to a particular set of them.I’ve mentioned more than once (including recently) a situation in which my employer began what might be, under the right conditions, termed “constructive dismissal.”The details don’t matter a whole lot, except that I was given […]

The board of the Herblock Foundation has voted to expand the eligibility for entrants for the Herblock Prize to include cartoonists whose work appears in monthly newspaper and magazines. The stated eligibility now states: “The Herblock Prize contest is open to any newspaper, magazine, wire service or syndicate cartoonist for editorial or political cartoons published […]

The HERBLOCK: The Black & the White documentary premiered on HBO last night, but will re-air several more times in the next two weeks. I saw portions of the film when it screened in Salt Lake City during the AAEC convention. It’s a fair documentary and worth your time.From the description: This feature documentary traces […]

Richard Schickel reviews the Herbert Block documentary “Herblock: The Black & the White” for Truthdig.com. But here’s a snippet from Schickel about Herblock: He seems to have had a quiet confidence, not particularly eager to force his favorites on those he consulted, apparently hiding his hand about the ideas he favored. He was, dammit, a […]

A new documentary on the work of Herblock debuted last weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival. The Atlantic has a good write up of Herblock and the documentary. Entertainment Weekly has video of Jon Stewart extolling the power that Herblock had with his pen. In his slugfest with McCarthy, however, Herblock took an incredible risk, […]

While newspapers fight for audience by removing all traces of uniqueness, character and community from their pages — this past week, the Record (no longer “The Bergen Record”)  laid off editorial cartoonist Jimmy Margulies after 22 years — the late cartooning legend Herblock continues to support the form with an award each year from the […]

For the second year in a row, an “altie” has won the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. The 2013 winner announced today goes to Dan Perkins (AKA Tom Tomorrow) creator of This Modern World. Judging this year’s entries were last year’s winner Matt Bors, Jenny Rob of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at […]

Tom Tomorrow on the continued predominance of the “We had to destroy the village in order to save it” school of economic policy.For those too young to remember, that phrase comes from a point in the Vietnam War when it was decided to move peasants from villages in vulnerable rural areas to brand new villages […]

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.

Congratulations are in order for Matt Bors who was named this year’s Herblock Prize winner. Matt is syndicated based out of Portland and also Comics Journalism co-editor of Cartoon Movement.The Herblock Prize honors editorial cartoonists “preserving the rights of the American people through freedom of speech and the right of expression.” As the winner, Matt […]