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June 19, 2006
Convention Roundup
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists held their annual convention in Denver from June 7-10. Dave Astor covered the event for Editor & Publisher, and we've posted links to some of his articles below. Both the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News (whose cartoonists -- Mike Keefe and Ed Stein respectively -- did an excellent job of hosting the affair) also had articles on the confab. In addition, a number of cartoonists have recently posted slideshows and interviews online from this year's AAEC convention.
The Denver Post turned over a page of its paper for visiting editorial cartoonists
to present their impressions of Denver:
http://www.denverpost.com/coloradosunday/ci_3923272
And The Rocky Mountain New's report on the annual gathering:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4761127,00.html
Dave Astor reported on a luncheon talk by guest speaker Sen. Gary Hart, including
Hart's comments on what is and isn't a scandal in America today:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002650838
In the wake of the Mohammad/Danish cartoonist mess, religion was of course
a topic of discussion this year.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002650988
Freedom of Expression was another timely topic this year, and that point was
driven home by two guest speakers: a cartoonist from Cuba and a cartoonist
from Algeria, both of whom had to overcome government oppression and threats
of imprisonment and death just to get published:
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002651559
It wasn't all sturm und drang -- a Friday session by four award-winning cartoonists,
who have been using the computer like no one else, pulled back the curtain
and showed some of their technical secrets:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002651487
While publishing on the internet is nothing new, a panel of experts looked
at the way the online model is changing in the 21st century -- and if cartoonists
can take advantage of it.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002651486
Keynote speaker Scott Simon, of NPR, closed out the convention Saturday night
with some very funny -- and curiously astringent -- comments on today's media:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002651566
Several awards were also given out at the closing banquet on Saturday: In addition the formal awarding of this year's Locher Award to Wake Forest University's William Warren, the AAEC gave E&P's Dave Astor the Ink Bottle Award for service and support of editorial cartooning.
And Canadian Michael DeAdder, of the Halifax Daily News, won this year's "Golden
Spike Award" for the best cartoon killed by an editor. (Daryl Cagle has
the cartoon posted over on his blog. Cagle also has a short interview he recorded
with DeAdder in Quicktime.)
Blog: http://cagle.com/news/blog/
Interview: http://cagle.com/news/blog/BLOGgifs/DeAdderSpike/DeadderSpike.mov
And finally, if you didn't get to go to this year's Denver convention and would like to see what you missed (or you did go and need a little help remembering what you did), several cartoonists have posted slideshows of the event online.
Photos by J.P. Trostle and Dwane Powell here:
http://web.mac.com/dwanep/iWeb/Site/aaecfaves.html
By Nate Beeler here:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/beelerfan/album?.dir=/d482re2&.src=ph&.tok=phbivCFB4M9Iu8IO
We will be posting links to more slideshows when they become available. Look for complete coverage of this year's gathering in the August Notebook.