A New AAEC Administration
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The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has a new Board of Directors.
2025 Officers and Board of Directors
President: Marc Murphy, Louisville Courier Journal
Vice President: John Auchter, Michigan Public Radio
Secretary-Treasurer: Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons
Director: Clay Jones, Claytoonz (2nd year)
Director: Paul Tarr, Rattoons, Crooksandliars.com (2nd year)
Director: Steve Stegelin, Charleston City Paper (1st year)
Director: Alexandra Bowman, Cagle Cartoons (1st year)
Past President: Jack Ohman, The San Francisco Chronicle
International Advisor: Patrick Chappatte, freelance
Minister of Information: Kevin Necessary
General Manager: Kelsey Maher
Outgoing President Jack Ohman pens a farewell/state of the organization/passing the baton to Marc letter.
As I conclude my second term as AAEC president, I’d like to leave you with a few thoughts as I turn the job over to the very able Marc Murphy.
First, the AAEC is in fairly solid financial shape for the next five years or so, depending. I am hopeful that some long-pursued financial stability measures I have taken will pay off soon, and I am confident they will. Any event horizon in journalism that runs five years is pretty good. This means full conventions at what I hope are the same level of services we’ve been able to provide in the past.
Second, in conjunction with the AAEC Board, we moved forward on the final restoration of a functioning AAEC website…
Also moving from stage to audience is JP Trostle, AAEC’s Minister of Information:
So, as you might have heard, I’ll be stepping down soon as the Notebook editor (and editor of this site). The reason — and I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it’s true — is to spend more time with my family.
It is also true that I’ve been moving away from editorial cartooning for a long while, at least as far as publications that pay are concerned; as the cliche goes, I didn’t so much leave newspapers as they left me.
My run as editor encompassed 40 issues of the AAEC Notebook — a record —including the book-length 50th Anniversary “Golden Notebook,” and one actual book, “Attack of the Political Cartoonists.”
Beyond that, I helped launch two websites — three if you count the disastrous voyage of the damned that was our previous site — ran award contests, wrote who knows how many press releases, and advised presidents. The position mutated over the last quarter-century as it absorbed other responsibilities…
We send well wishes to the incoming, the outgoing, and those staying in place.
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