The AAEC has announced the preliminary lineup for their virtual convention on Oct. 8-9, 2021. https://editorialcartoonists.com/aaec-zoomfest21/ All the events on Saturday, Oct. 9, are free and open to the public, including a discussion with this year’s three Pulitzer Prize finalists on
Congratulations to the winner of the 2021 AAEC John Locher Memorial Award, Sam Nakahira! http://locheraward.org/news This year’s panelists said: “Sam’s work contains strong, clear opinions balanced with well-researched facts. Sam uses pop culture touchstones such as books, movies and music to beautifully
Award-winning animator and editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore is working with station KQED to encourage budding cartoonists in middle and high schools nationwide to take on political issues. Fiore, whose cartoons about California politics appear regularly on the public broadcasting website,
Hey all — You have two day left to enter the AAEC’s Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning!  We are accepting submissions until midnight PST, Friday, Aug. 27! Click here for complete details to enter: https://www.editorialcartoonists.com/call-for-entries-the-2021-rex-babin-memorial-award-for-excellence-in-local-cartooning/
Join the editorial cartoonists of the AAEC for our virtual convention Oct. 8-9, 2021. Like everyone else this year, we’re hunkering down online. Again. We’ll kick things off Friday evening with a reception for Association members and our annual awards
Lalo Alcaraz has been on a viral roll lately. The Today Show website interviewed the political cartoonist after his visual commentary on Simone Biles and the Olympics took off online: https://www.today.com/news/cartoon-praises-simone-biles-putting-her-mental-health-first-t227265?fbclid=IwAR3JkiXaeoY-w_YAX3G_p7V2fX6FRgoPgDu9-FvMK8lKEVPXfRdy4E6nJ-s And he went literally viral with a new
Political cartoonists in the AAEC recently joined cartoonists from Nicaragua and the Philippines to discuss the similar threats both countries face from authoritarianism. Filipino-American artist Angelo Lopez, and Nicaraguan cartoonist Pedro X. Molina (currently living in the U.S. after receiving
Editorial cartoons by Adam Zyglis have disappeared from the pages of @TheBuffaloNews after the pulitzer prize winner joined the byline strike by the Buffalo Newspaper Guild against owner Lee Enterprises. Zyglis posted a social media alert, and The Daily Cartoonist has
AAEC President Jen Sorensen‬ has won First Place for her editorial cartoons from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. This is the first year the NSNC has included a category for cartooning, and it is a welcome addition to the annual
The Vermont alt-weekly Seven Days defended its cartoonists in a column from the publisher this week, and talked to Jen Sorensen, Keith Knight and local contributor Tim Newcomb about the difficult line they often straddle. Seven Days believes so strongly in the importance
The AAEC has announced the preliminary lineup for their virtual convention on Oct. 8-9, 2021. https://editorialcartoonists.com/aaec-zoomfest21/ All the events on Saturday, Oct. 9, are free and open to the public, including a discussion with this year’s three Pulitzer Prize finalists on
Congratulations to the winner of the 2021 AAEC John Locher Memorial Award, Sam Nakahira! http://locheraward.org/news This year’s panelists said: “Sam’s work contains strong, clear opinions balanced with well-researched facts. Sam uses pop culture touchstones such as books, movies and music to beautifully
Award-winning animator and editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore is working with station KQED to encourage budding cartoonists in middle and high schools nationwide to take on political issues. Fiore, whose cartoons about California politics appear regularly on the public broadcasting website,
Hey all — You have two day left to enter the AAEC’s Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning!  We are accepting submissions until midnight PST, Friday, Aug. 27! Click here for complete details to enter: https://www.editorialcartoonists.com/call-for-entries-the-2021-rex-babin-memorial-award-for-excellence-in-local-cartooning/
Join the editorial cartoonists of the AAEC for our virtual convention Oct. 8-9, 2021. Like everyone else this year, we’re hunkering down online. Again. We’ll kick things off Friday evening with a reception for Association members and our annual awards
Lalo Alcaraz has been on a viral roll lately. The Today Show website interviewed the political cartoonist after his visual commentary on Simone Biles and the Olympics took off online: https://www.today.com/news/cartoon-praises-simone-biles-putting-her-mental-health-first-t227265?fbclid=IwAR3JkiXaeoY-w_YAX3G_p7V2fX6FRgoPgDu9-FvMK8lKEVPXfRdy4E6nJ-s And he went literally viral with a new
Political cartoonists in the AAEC recently joined cartoonists from Nicaragua and the Philippines to discuss the similar threats both countries face from authoritarianism. Filipino-American artist Angelo Lopez, and Nicaraguan cartoonist Pedro X. Molina (currently living in the U.S. after receiving
Editorial cartoons by Adam Zyglis have disappeared from the pages of @TheBuffaloNews after the pulitzer prize winner joined the byline strike by the Buffalo Newspaper Guild against owner Lee Enterprises. Zyglis posted a social media alert, and The Daily Cartoonist has
AAEC President Jen Sorensen‬ has won First Place for her editorial cartoons from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. This is the first year the NSNC has included a category for cartooning, and it is a welcome addition to the annual
The Vermont alt-weekly Seven Days defended its cartoonists in a column from the publisher this week, and talked to Jen Sorensen, Keith Knight and local contributor Tim Newcomb about the difficult line they often straddle. Seven Days believes so strongly in the importance
