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Ali Ferzat named 100 Most Influential People in World
Time Magazine’s latest issue names 100 of the most influential people in the world. Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat is named on the list. Matt Wuerker writes why: Ferzat wasn’t intimidated. His hands have healed and are back to cartooning — drawing sharp, vivid pictures and wry observations on his people’s plight. In the end, the [...]
Posted on: Apr 18, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
News round up: Matt Wuerker wins the Pulitzer
Matt Wuerker has won the Pulitzer Prize and the first one within his publication to do so. Here’s a round up of the more pertinent news stories surrounding his win. From Politico Harris said Wuerker’s award is “truly one for the good guys.” “I don’t think there is any better example of nice guys finishing [...]
Posted on: Apr 17, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Matt Wuerker wins 2012 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning
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 [...]
Posted on: Apr 16, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 13 Comments
Pulitzer Prize announcement to be made today
Just a reminder that today the Pulitzer Prize will me announced for the category of editorial cartooning. Announcement will be made at 3:00 EST. I’ll have the winner posted here as soon as it’s made available.
Posted on: Apr 16, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
California governor declares April 15 Rex Babin Day
California Gov. Jerry Brown issued a proclamation declaring today, April 15, as “Rex Babin Day” in the Golden State. Here’s the text of his declaration: PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA “It is difficult not to write satire,” observed the Roman poet Juvenal at the close of the 1st Century A.D. Few [...]
Posted on: Apr 15, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
AAEC starts fund drive for Sebastian Babin
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is collecting money from its members for the Sebastian Babin Education Fund. The fund was created after Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Rex Babin passed away last month after battling cancer. Sebastian is the 10-year old son of Rex and his wife Kathleen. From their website: Rex was a hard-working [...]
Posted on: Apr 13, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Marty Two Bulls wins SPJ editorial cartooning award
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 [...]
Posted on: Apr 11, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Gary Varvel honored with National Headliners Award
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.
Posted on: Apr 10, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Matt Bors wins SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Award
Taking his second major prize for the year, Matt Bors has been honored with The Society of Professional Journalists’ 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism. Matt is also this year’s Herblock Prize winner. Congratulations, Matt.
Posted on: Apr 10, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 3 Comments
Jeff Koterba featured in documentary on creativity and Tourette
Jeff Koterba, editorial cartoonist for the Omaha World-Herald, is being featured in a documentary on creativity and Tourette Syndrome. In addition to his editorial cartoons, Jeff is a writer and musician. One of the most surrealistic moments I’ve ever experienced had to be watching myself twitch on the big screen-when I was able to watch, [...]
Posted on: Apr 10, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
Jack Ohman wins Scripps Howard Award for editorial cartooning
I missed this one, but congratulations are in order to Jack Ohman of The Oregonian who was awarded this year’s Scripps Howard Award for editorial cartooning. Judges noted his “multi-panel cartoons that addressed national issues from a local perspective.” Finalists this year include: Nick Anderson (Houston Chronicle) and Stephanie McMillan (South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Posted on: Apr 10, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Joel Pett remembers Rex Babin
Joel Pett writing in the Sacramento Bee: This past year, as he battled his mystifying, excruciating disease, he became one of my closest and most admired friends. He tried to teach me things, big, important things about life’s priorities, the utter foolishness of wasting energy on, well, the things we all waste it on. I [...]
Posted on: Apr 9, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Public memorial planned for Rex Babin
A public memorial will be held to honor the Sacramento Bee’s late editorial cartoonist Rex Babin who passed away on March 30 at the age of 49 after a year-long battle with cancer. The memorial service will include editorial cartoonists Joel Pett (Lexington Herald-Leader) and Jack Ohman (Portland Oregonian) as speakers. The event will be [...]
Posted on: Apr 6, 2012, Section: Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Petition started to reinstate Texas cartoonist after Trayvon cartoon
Students at the University of Texas have started an online petition hoping to support the reinstatement of the campus paper’s cartoonist Stephanie Eisner who was fired after the paper ran her cartoon commenting on the media coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida. She later apologized as did the paper. It should be noted [...]
Posted on: Apr 6, 2012, Section: College cartoonists, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Trudeau, Herblock named in top 100 journalists list
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau and legendary editorial cartoonist Herbert Block (“Herblock”) were named by the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University in a list of “the 100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years.” The full list is the who’s-who of A-list journalists and writers.
Posted on: Apr 5, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 4 Comments
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