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April 18, 2008
Spring Briefs: Appearances, Shows and Awards
Ted Rall, is scheduled to appear with Valerie Plame Wilson and Judith Miller as speakers at the 21st annual Media and the Law Seminar in Kansas City on Friday, April 18.
Rall's credits include doing editorial cartoons for Universal Press Syndicate, serving as president-elect of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, and working as acquisitions editor for United Media. Wilson, of course, was the CIA agent outed via a 2003 column by Robert Novak of the Chicago Sun-Times after her husband wrote a New York Times op-ed piece questioning the Bush administration's Iraq War claims. Miller is the former Times reporter who wrote stories that ended up being used by the Bush administration to help make its case for invading Iraq. She also spent time in jail for not disclosing a source during the "Plamegate" scandal.
"Lines of Humor, Shades of Controversy: A Century of Student Cartooning at UNC" runs until May 31 at the Wilson Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina. Presenting 177 cartoons from undergraduate publications at UNC between 1907 and 2006, the show is highlighted by early original cartoons by Jeff MacNelly. John Branch, editorial cartoonist of the San Antonio Express-News (and graduate of UNC in 1976) opened the show with the show-and-tell "A Tar Heel Cartoonist in Texas: Drawing the Line in the Lone Star State."
The work of Green Bay (Wis.) Press-Gazette editorial cartoonist Joe Heller will be exhibited from April 19 to Sept. 7 at Green Bay's Neville Public Museum. More than 200 of his cartoons are set to be displayed.
Also, the Press-Gazette reports that Heller's work will be part of an exhibit at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison. "That's the Ticket! A Parade of Presidential Elections" is slated to run from April 15 through Nov. 8. Heller does his cartoons for more than 350 newspapers via Heller Syndication.
For the second consecutive year, The Week has named Mike Luckovich of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as its Editorial Cartoonist of the Year.
"THE WEEK seeks to bring its readers the best, most intriguing, insightful, and thought-provoking perspectives we can find? said Steven Kotok, general manager of THE WEEK. "And this year's winners are the best of the best, consistently producing original and challenging commentary."
In addition to Luckovich, Polk-Award winning journalist and founder of Talking Points Memo (www.talkingpointsmemo.com) Josh Marshall was chosen as Blogger of the Year, and Washington Post op-ed Columnist Ruth Marcus was been selected as Columnist of the Year.
Sources: E&P; The Daily Cartoonist; The Week