Mike Peters wins National Headliner Award
Mike Peters, editorial cartoonist for the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) has won this year’s National Headliner Award for editorial cartooning. Second and third place went to Stuart Carlson (Universal Uclick Syndicate) and Adam Zyglis (The Buffalo News, NY) respectively. Mike won the award last year. Interviewed by Michael Cavna about the announcement, Mike said, [...]
Posted on: Mar 28, 2011, Section: Awards, Comments: 0 Comments
7th annual Doug Wright Awards announced
The nominees for Best Book are: Bigfoot by Pascal Girard (Drawn and Quarterly) Chimo by David Collier (Conundrum Press) Lose #2 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press) Moving Pictures by Kathryn Immonen, Stuart Immonen (Top Shelf Productions) Streakers by Nick Maandag The nominees for Best Emerging Talent are: Aaron Costain, Entropy # 5 Alex Fellows, Spain [...]
Posted on: Mar 16, 2011, Section: Awards, Comments: 0 Comments
Glyph Comic Award Nominees announced
This year’s Glyph Comic Award nominees have been announced. Winners will announced at the 2011 Glyph Comics Awards ceremony held in conjunction with the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) on May 20. Story of the Year Afrodisiac; Jim Rugg, co-writer and artist; Brian Maruca, co-writer BB Wolf and the 3 LPs; JD [...]
Posted on: Feb 17, 2011, Section: Awards, Comments: 1 Comment
Harvey Awards ballots now available
From The Harvey Awards Committee: The Executive Committees of the Harvey Awards and the Baltimore Comic-Con are proud to present the official Nomination Ballot for this year’s Harvey Awards. Named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, one of the industry’s most innovative talents, the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art. [...]
Posted on: Feb 3, 2011, Section: Awards, Comments: 0 Comments
James Kochalka named Vermont’s Cartoonist Laureate
SuperF**kers, Johnny Boo and Dragon Puncher creator James Kochalka has been named Vermont’s first Cartoonist Laureate. Like Vermont’s poet laureate, the cartoonist laureate is a person whose primary residence is Vermont, whose work manifests a high degree of excellence, who has produced a critically acclaimed body of work, and who has a long association with [...]
Posted on: Jan 26, 2011, Section: Awards, Comments: 7 Comments
Call for Entries for 2010 NCS Division Awards
MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond posts details on how to enter into the National Cartoonist Society’s annual division awards. You don’t have to be a member of the NCS to receive an award for excellence in your field. Categories include: television animation, feature animation, newspaper illustration, gag cartoons, greeting cards, newspaper comic strips, newspaper panel [...]
Posted on: Jan 12, 2011, Section: Awards, Comments: 0 Comments
Video: Mike Peter’s Walk of Fame
KPLR in St. Louis is highlighting the career of Mike Peters, editorial cartoonist and creator of Mother Goose and Grimm in their series of those in St. Louis’ Walk of Fame. Mike was inducted in 2002.
Posted on: Dec 14, 2010, Section: Awards, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 5 Comments
Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship deadline Dec. 15
Know a young budding college aged cartoonist? The Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship is an award of $5,000 and a trip to the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Weekend. Applicants must be college students in the United States, Canada or Mexico that will be in their Junior or Senior year during the 2010-2011 academic year. Applicants do [...]
Posted on: Dec 10, 2010, Section: Awards, College cartoonists, Comments: 0 Comments
Best Animated Short nominees announced
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 10 films nominated for Best Animated Short film. In alphabetical order: “The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger,” Bill Plympton, director (Bill Plympton Studio) “Coyote Falls,” Matthew O’Callaghan, director and Sam Register, executive producer (Warner Bros. Animation Inc.) “Day & Night,” Teddy Newton, [...]
Posted on: Dec 3, 2010, Section: Animation, Awards, Movies, Comments: 3 Comments
Matt Wuerker wins Berryman Award
Politico’s Matt Wuerker has won the 2010 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for editorial cartooning. Earlier this year, Matt was the recipient of the Herblock Prize. Regarding Matt’s work, judges noted that, “Matt’s drawings blend satire, irony and the right amount of anger to skewer the politically powerful of all persuasions.” Matt wins [...]
Posted on: Nov 23, 2010, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
2010 Stanley Award winners presented
The Australian Cartoonists Association met this weekend for their Annual Stanley Awards event to honor the best in their industry. The winners are: Cartoonist of the Year: David Pope of the Canberra Times Caricaturist: David Rowe of the Australian Financial Review Single Gag Cartoonist: Matt Golding Graphic Media Artist: Geoff Richardson of the Sydney Morning [...]
Posted on: Nov 8, 2010, Section: Awards, International, Comments: 5 Comments
Mort Walker wins Cartoon Art Museum’s Sparky Award
The Cartoon Art Museum has announced that Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey and founder of the National Cartoon Museum, is the recipient of the 2010 Sparky Award, which was presented to him by CAM curator Andrew Farago during a spotlight panel at last weekend’s New York Comic-Con. The Sparky Award is named in honor [...]
Posted on: Oct 15, 2010, Section: Awards, Comic strips, Comments: 4 Comments
Bill Gallo receives New York Press Club Award
Bill Gallo, who has been The Daily News cartoonist and columnist for over 50 years, was honored with the New York Press Club President’s Award last Saturday. “We’re delighted that the New York Press Club has chosen to shine a light on our colleague and friend Bill Gallo,” said Daily News editor-in-chief Kevin R. Convey. [...]
Posted on: Oct 14, 2010, Section: Awards, Comments: 0 Comments
Clay Bennett wins Green Eyeshade Awards
Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett has won the Society of Professional Journalist’s 60th annual Green Eyeshade Awards for editorial cartooning. The awards recognize the best in print, broadcast and online journalism produced throughout eleven southeastern states. Editorial cartoonist Bill Day of United Features Syndicate took second place and third place went to [...]
Posted on: Sep 13, 2010, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
2010 Harvey Award winners
The 2010 Harvey Award winners were announced over the weekend. Here are the winners: Best Writer – Robert Kirkman, “THE WALKING DEAD”, Image Comics Best Artist – Robert Crumb, “BOOK OF GENESIS”, W.W. Norton Best Cartoonist – Darwyn Cooke, “RICHARD STARK’S PARKER: THE HUNTER”, IDW Best Letterer- David Mazzucchelli, “ASTERIOS POLYP”, Pantheon Best Inker – [...]
Posted on: Aug 31, 2010, Section: Awards, Books, Comic strips, Graphic Novels, web comics, Comments: 1 Comment
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