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!


Remembering Don Wright

Above: Don Wright and wife Carolyn host the AAEC Convention in Miami in 1969. The news recently broke that Don Wright, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, has died at age 90. He drew some 11,000 cartoons during a 45-year career, and while Wright only ever worked for two Florida papers, The Miami News and The […]

SAVE THE DATE: 2024 AAEC/Canadian Convention Announced

If you haven’t used them in a few years, dust off those passports and brush up on your French: This year’s AAEC Convention will be a joint confab with the Association of Canadian Cartoonists in Montreal from Oct. 3-6, 2024. This is the first time the AAEC has been back to Quebec since <checks watch> […]

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.



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.