The 87th National Headliner Award winners honoring the best journalism in the United States in 2020 were announced today. The National Headliner Awards were founded in 1934 by the Press Club of Atlantic City. The annual contest is one of the oldest and largest in the country that recognizes journalistic merit in the communications industry. […]
Newspapers frequently receive letters about the editorial cartoons they run. The Register-Guard in Oregon is no exception: Of the many letters awash in admonishment are ones criticizing the selection of cartoons. A real zesty subset of these say, e.g., “The content of this cartoon is a lie! It could and probably has, led people to […]
Happy Birthday to Lily Renée (Lily Renée Willheim Peters Phillips) born 100 years ago today. Lily joins a few other centenarians on our Senior Strippers list. This seems a good time to update our Senior Strippers roster, cartoonists who for 90+ years continue to survive “the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.” […]
Political cartoons aren’t supposed to be funny except when they are, and I got a laugh out of Cathy Wilcox‘s piece, though I recognized the serious point behind it. It is, of course, a double criticism, of America’s erratic policies and of Australia’s response, and I’m betting that not all her readers at The Sydney […]