The 38th Rotary Cartoon Awards were held Saturday night at the National Cartoon Gallery located in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales. The National Cartoon Gallery announced the winners on their Facebook account. The winners: Peter Player’s ‘At the Museum’ won the Rotary Cartoon Award’s Cartoon of the Year. Pat Hudson won the Politics category with […]
We’ve been showcasing some Australian cartoonists lately. Last week Friday, which is something like next week Tuesday in Down Under time, we celebrated the three Walkley Award finalists for Cartoon of the Year. Then this past weekend we reported on David Rowe and the other winners and honorees from the ACA’s Stanley Awards. Today we’re […]
The Australian Cartoonists Association held their convention this weekend and as part of the gathering presented The 2025 Stanleys, more formally known as The Stan Cross Awards, to cartoonists in various categories. To paraphrase Peter Broelman: Eight Stanleys were awarded for Book Illustrator, Caricaturist, Comic Book Artist, Comic Strip Cartoonist, Editorial/Political Cartoonist, Event Cartoonist, Illustrator […]
The Chinese have their water torture and the Australians, well the National Cartoon Gallery anyway, have their own form of torment. This year’s Rotary Cartoon Awards were held two weeks ago but the disclosure of the winning cartoonists and the runners-up were announced one day at a time since the ceremony. But we finally have […]
I wasn’t sure where to begin today, but Matt Bors offers a nice meld of the Facebook issue and our national governance crisis.Bors often depicts a level of something I’m hesitant to call “paranoia” but which is based on an assumption of purpose and intent that I think the world largely lacks. That is, people […]