Serge Chapleau wins 6th National Newspaper Award
Serge Chapleau, editorial cartoonist for the La Presse, has been awarded his sixth National Newspaper Award for editorial cartooning. You can see his work at his paper’s web site.
Posted on: May 13, 2008, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Bruce MacKinnon wins Atlantic Journalism Award
Bruce Mackinnon, editorial cartoonist for the The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, NS, has been honored with this year’s Atlantic Journalism Award for editorial cartooning. The AJA recognizes journalistic excellence and achievement in print and electronic news media in Atlantic Canada. Finalists for the award include Michael de Adder of the The Daily News (Halifax, NS) [...]
Posted on: May 6, 2008, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Clay Bennett wins 2007 Thomas Nast Award
Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett has won this year’s Thomas Nast Award for best cartoons on international affairs from the Overseas Press Club of America. The award was given for a portfolio of work while he was at The Christian Science Monitor.
The judges noted, “his cartoons do what all great cartoons do: [...]
Posted on: Apr 29, 2008, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Jay Kennedy Scholarship winner announced
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) announced the winner of the first annual Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship, Juana Medina, a sophomore at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Medina edged out almost two hundred applicants for the award, which includes a $5,000.00 scholarship and a trip to the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award [...]
Posted on: Apr 24, 2008, Section: Awards, College cartoonists, Comments: 14 Comments
Yale student wins 2008 Locher Memorial Award
Sam Ayres, student editorial cartoonist for the Yale Daily News has been awarded this year’s AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award for best college cartoonist according to E&P.
Sam is a Junior studying English and Political Science. He was a runner up to last year’s award. He’ll be honored at this year’s AAEC convention in San Antonio, TX [...]
Posted on: Apr 21, 2008, Section: Awards, College cartoonists, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Dick Locher inducted to local hall of fame
As mentioned back in January, Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Dick Locher will be inducted into the Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame this Thursday evening in a black tie affair in Geneva, IL. The honor was created to recognize artists affiliated with Fox Valley by birth, education, residence or service that have “achieved international or [...]
Posted on: Apr 21, 2008, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Dunlap-Shohl honored with First Amendment Award
Anchorage Daily News editorial cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Shohl was honored last Saturday night with Alaska Press Club’s First Amendment Award.
In the nomination letter, his former editorial page editor wrote the following:
Nearly three decades later, they still do. When Parkinson’s disease threatened his drawing capabilities, Peter learned new computer techniques and actually expanded his repertoire. When [...]
Posted on: Apr 21, 2008, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Richard Thompson named best DC cartoonist
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson was named this year’s Best Cartoonist by The Washington City Paper - a local best of for the Washington D.C. area.
Regarding Richard, they write:
Thompson is a local institution-in addition to scads of magazine work, his “Richard’s Poor Almanack” is one of the few things in the Saturday Post worth [...]
Posted on: Apr 18, 2008, Section: Awards, Comic strips, Comments: 7 Comments
Frank Cho nominated for Eagle Award
Liberty Meadows creator Frank Cho has been nominated for an Eagle Award for his pencil work on the Mighty Avengers comic book. Also nominated in the “Favourite Comic Artists: Pencils” include Bryan Hitch, Ethan Van Sciver, Frank Quitely and Thomas Boatwright.
Posted on: Apr 16, 2008, Section: Awards, Comments: 1 Comment
Michael Ramirez wins Sigma Delta Chi Award
Investor’s Business Daily editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez has won this year’s Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning. The announcement comes one week after Michael was awarded this year’s Pulitzer.
Posted on: Apr 14, 2008, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Mike Luckovich wins opinion awards
The Week, a news and opinion magazine, has named Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich as Editorial Cartoonist of the Year for the second year in a row.
Posted on: Apr 14, 2008, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Clay Bennett Sets Finalist Record for Pulitzer Prize
Clay Bennett, editorial cartoonist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, is one of this year’s Pulitzer Prize finalists and in doing, I believe, has set the record for the most number of times being honored as a finalist in the category of editorial cartooning - a record of six times (1999-2003, 2008). He won journalism’s [...]
Posted on: Apr 7, 2008, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 3 Comments
Michael Ramirez wins 2008 Pulitzer Prize (UPDATED)
In the category of Editorial Cartooning, the Pulitzer Board has announced this year’s winner to be Michael Ramirez of The Investor’s Business Daily. This is Michael’s second Pulitzer, the first being in 1994 while at the Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn).
Michael has had a very successful year so far. He was also awarded this year’s Fischetti [...]
Posted on: Apr 7, 2008, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 32 Comments
Tom Batiuk is 2008 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Tom Batiuk creator of the comic feature Funky Winkerbean is one of the three finalists for this year’s Pulitzer Prize. This is the fourth time a comic strip has been considered for American journalism’s top prize. Two previous comic strippers have won the prize Garry Trudeau (1975) and Berkeley Breathed (1987).
According to the judges, Tom’s [...]
Posted on: Apr 7, 2008, Section: Awards, Comic strips, Comments: 3 Comments
Trivia stats regarding the Pulitzer Prize
Whilst sitting at the bar at the next AAEC convention, you can dazzle your peers with some interesting statistics regarding the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.
Two comic strips have won the Pulitzer for editorial cartooning:
Berkeley Breathed (1987)
Garry Trudeau (1975)
Only two female editorial cartoonists have won:
Ann Telnaes (2001)
Signe Wilkinson (1992)
Five individuals have won it three times:
Paul [...]
Posted on: Apr 7, 2008, Section: Awards, Comic strips, Comments: 6 Comments
