Stephanie McMillan wins RFK award
The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights has announced this year’s winners of the RFK Book and…
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Happy birthday american editorial cartooning
Today marks the 258th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die” cartoon – often thought of as the first editorial…
AAEC Convention dates set for September 13-15
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists annual convention will be held in Washington DC this year on September 13–15. This…
Swiss cartoonist wins Thomas Nast Award
The Overseas Press Club of America has awarded this year’s Thomas Nast Award to Swiss cartoonist Patrick Chapatte who draws…
2012 Locher Award to be given to Ben Wade
Ben Wade, a student at Indiana University – Bloomington, will be award this year’s AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award. Second place…
No more Pulitzers for cartooning, give it to memes
Farhad Manjoo, writing on Slate.com, isn’t impressed with the Pulitzer Prize going to editorial cartooning and argues that the award…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Must read: Jack Ohman’s eulogy of Rex Babin
Rex’s cartoons sometimes were so different that I would wonder how the hell he got there. While I was dutifully…
Student cartoonist fired after Trayvon Martin cartoon
University of Texas student editorial cartoonist, Stephanie Eisner, is no longer The Daily Texan’s cartoonist after she created a national…
2011 National Newspaper Awards Finalists announced
From the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists comes news of the finalists for the 2011 National Newspaper Awards Finalists. This…
Marshall Ramsey honored for “Volunteer Excellence”
Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey has been awarded the Governor’s Initiative for Volunteer Excellence (GIVE) for Outstanding Service by a…
Auchter picks up MLive Media Group papers
John Auchter, who draws editorial cartoons for the Grand Rapids Press (MI), has picked up a chain of papers to…