Annual Convention

Annual Convention October 3-6

The 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!


Ward Sutton is the 2018 Herblock Award winner

  The Herb Block Foundation has announced that Ward Sutton has been named the winner of the 2018 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.   Ward Sutton has been creating biting editorial cartoons for The Boston Globe since 2008. He experiments with size and format, often producing multi-panel cartoons that can read like a graphic novel. In […]

Joel Pett vs. gun nuts

Political cartoonist Joel Pett takes aim at the "murder lobby" of the NRA in a weekend column, and considers how America has changed since Ronald Reagan got shot 37 years ago. https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article203232084.html

Political Cartoonist helps Coco win Oscar

A huge congratulations to cartoonist and long-time AAEC member Lalo Alcaraz. Lalo was part of the Pixar team that created Coco, which just (and justifiably) won the Oscar for Best Animated Movie. Alcaraz was one of the cultural advisors on the film, keeping Disney's efforts authentic, and helping to shape the movie into one of the […]

OUR MISSION

The mission of the AAEC is to champion and defend editorial cartooning and free speech as essential to liberty in the United States and throughout the world.

The AAEC aims to be an international leader in support of the human, civil, and artistic rights of editorial cartoonists around the world, and to stand with other international groups in support of the profession.



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CARTOONS IN EDUCATION

Cartoons in Education

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.