October 3-6The AAEC and Association of Canadian Cartoonists will be teaming up with the Université du Québec à Montréal for a 3-day celebration political cartoonists, October 3-6, 2024.
Online registration coming soon!
San Diego cartoonist Steve Breen wins second Pulitzer, other awards Steve Breen, the editorial cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune, has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. It was only the second time his newspaper has been awarded journalism’s highest honor and the second for Breen himself; he won while at the Asbury […]
Working as an editorial cartoonist this year—working, that is, if anyone is interested in employing you—is like living inside Casey Kasem’s brain: The hits keep on coming. Whether it’s Robert Ariail or Jim Borgman or John Branch or Gary Brookins or Stuart Carlson or Richard Crowson or Bill Day or Eric Devericks or Brian Duffy […]
Chris Britt, who draws for the State Journal-Register in Illinois, nabbed this year’s SDX, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence, given by the Society of Professional Journalists. The awards will be presented during the SPJ Convention and National Journalism Conference, August 27-30 in Indianapolis. The Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism has named its […]
Mike Luckovich, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, won this year’s Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards for Editorial Cartooning. Luckovich received $10,000 and a trophy for “his ability to incite multiple emotions with the reading of a single cartoon.” Other finalists for the prize included Don Asmussen of the San Francisco Chronicle […]
Jack Ohman, of The Oregonian, is this year's recipient of the RFK Journalism Award for Cartooning. In citing his work, the judges stated: “Ohman's cartoons tackle a range of difficult topics including poverty and unemployment in Oregon, the practice of shuffling Oregon teachers suspected of molesting children to other schools, rising college tuition costs, and […]
By Alan Gardner Lee Judge, editorial cartoonist for the Kansas City Star, is this year’s winner of the John Fischetti award for excellence in editorial cartooning. The winning cartoon shows a soldier’s helmet perched on a rifle with the caption “Price of Gas.” This is the second such win by Lee. He won the very […]
Jake Thompson, a junior in advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, is this year’s winner of the AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award. According to Thompson, even though he has always enjoyed comics, in particular the work of Bill Watterson, he did not actively begin cartooning until he studied abroad in Scotland where he […]
In a recent article on The Huffington Post, editor-turned-freelance writer Jason Notte said: “If newspaper’s death knell is ringing, editorial cartoonists are pulling the rope.” Ignoring the fact that his chest-thumping piece, “Ten Features that Are Dying with your Newspaper,” was yet another in the newspapers-are-dead-do-you-hear-me-dead! category Huffpo is apparently trying to corner, I kinda […]
[After the latest rounds of layoffs at the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the city’s alt-weekly, Memphis Flyer, published a hard-hitting look at the current condition of the daily paper — an article that left CA editor Chris Peck rather publicly upset. Bill Day “reaches out” to his former boss in this letter to the Memphis Flyer.] […]
By Michael Cavna The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's editorial cartoonist, David Horsey, is better situated than most of his newsroom colleagues — as well as many newspaper cartoonists. Largely because of the structure of Horsey's employment setup, the two-time Pulitzer winner knows this: His job, in some form, is safe. In a recent interview, Horsey talked with […]
By Belinda A. Aquino Today, the late Corky Trinidad would have reached the age of 70, and as far as we know, he never missed a deadline. Family, friends, colleagues and admirers have chosen this day to begin a campaign to memorialize Corky’s artistic and professional legacy. The “Friends of Corky” initiative aims to establish […]
In April, The Ohio State University received a gift of $1 million from Jean Schulz, the widow of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, to support the renovation of Sullivant Hall, the future home of the new Cartoon Library and Museum. Along with her generous gift, Mrs. Schulz issued a challenge: She will provide an additional […]
By Dennis Myers Jefferson High School in Portland, Ore., was built in 1909, and recently a clean up of its storage room turned up several dozen pieces of art, many of them by New Deal-era artists like Otis Oldfield and Elinor Stone.Also found were the originals of 19 cartoons by Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Lucius […]
by Bill Castanier Bob Hope, the dean of overseas USO tours to entertain troops, was famous for deadpan jokes. A recent USO trip to Germany by eight cartoonists could have been grist for one of the late comedians patented gags, which may have gone something like this: Hope goes on stage, sees a group of […]
If memory serves me, this was the 7th annual trek to Sick Kids, aka Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. My wife Dawn is the dynamo behind the scenes, emailing, faxing, phoning, goading and reminding all those talented cartoonists who live within 50 miles to spend a couple of hours mesmerizing those little people whose health […]
By Michael Cavna Sitting expectantly at the taping of a late-night talk show, Bryan Brinkman was a near-anonymous New Yorker — literally just another face in the crowd. The 24-year-old cartoonist had a Web site and a day job, but he could count on two ink-stained hands how many people officially followed his work. By […]
As our current model collapses around us — whether it is a business model, employer model or, in the case of the AAEC, convention sponsor model — the debate on what to do next grows louder. While no one’s figured out a solution yet, at least we’re talking about it. Here are two recent discussions, […]
Jim Lange, who for 58 years contributed cartoons to the editorial page of The Oklahoman, and was one of the founding members of the AAEC, died on April 16. Lange, 82, retired in October after a prodigious career for the daily newspaper in his adopted hometown. From 1950, when he joined The Oklahoman at the […]
Draper Hill, the long-time Detroit News cartoonist and eminent cartoon historian, passed away on May 13. In addition to his decades of work as a staff cartoonist, he published biographies of Thomas Nast and James Gillray, and was long considered the “institutional memory” of the AAEC. “He wanted to increase the awareness of people and […]
Every two weeks throughout the year, The Learning Forum and the AAEC offers CARTOONS FOR THE CLASSROOM, a free lesson resource for teachers discussing current events. Visit NIEonline.com for more lesson plans.
