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An Open Letter to the Pulitzer Prize Board | Post
https://editorialcartoonists.com/an-open-letter-to-the-pulitzer-prize-board/May 10, 2022- The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists would like to congratulate illustrator Fahmida Azim and the other contributors to the team that created the illustrated article, “I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp,” which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in the recently renamed category of Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. We would like...
The International Editorial Cartoon Award Returns | Post
https://editorialcartoonists.com/the-international-editorial-cartoon-award-returns/May 2, 2022- The International Editorial Cartoon Award returns for 2022 after a Covid hiatus. Patrick Chappatte and the Freedom Cartoonists Foundation will announce the winner on World Press Freedom Day, May 3, with an online presentation and live panel discussion with the two 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winners, journalists Maria Ressa and...
Lalo Alcaraz to Receive Herblock at Library of Congress | Post
https://editorialcartoonists.com/lalo-alcaraz-to-receive-herblock-at-library-of-congress/April 26, 2022- On the day he receives the coveted Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress, Lalo Alcaraz talks to @comicriffs Michael Cavna about what motivates him as a political cartoonist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/04/26/lalo-alcaraz-cartoons-herblock-prize/...
Cartoonist Talks | Post
https://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoonist-talks/April 25, 2022- ICYMI — Political cartoonist Angelo Lopez has been posting a series of online discussions with editorial cartoonists. First up, he and Eric Garcia talk about the role of artist activists in helping to create social change, and the importance of political cartoons in critiquing society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgScglqKMpg Then, Lopez chats with...
Ramirez Bags ‘Best Cartoon’ at Overseas Press Club | Post
https://editorialcartoonists.com/ramirez-bags-best-cartoon-at-overseas-press-club/March 23, 2022- Congratulations to Michael Ramirez on being named this year’s winner of the OPCA’s “Best Cartoon Award” (aka the Award formerly known as the Thomas Nast). This is the first time the Overseas Press Club of America has picked Ramirez for his cartoons on international events. The conservative cartoonist, who draws...
Political cartooning is dead! Long live cartoons about politics! | Post
https://editorialcartoonists.com/political-cartooning-is-dead-long-live-cartoons-about-politics/September 27, 2021- The new edition of Columbia Journalism Review is out, and newly-retired cartoonist Matt Bors has a timely (and trenchant) piece on the state of editorial cartooning. Spoiler alert: it’s not good. “It turned out I wasn’t the future of editorial cartoons; I was one of the last people making a...
Some paper writes about the travails of cartoonists on Facebook | Post
https://editorialcartoonists.com/some-paper-writes-about-the-travails-of-cartoonists-on-facebook/March 19, 2021- Some newspaper wrote about Facebook‘s failure to understand irony, and how that is threatening the livelihood of editorial cartoonists. While the most of the article is about Matt Bors and The Nib, cartoonists Adam Zyglis, Ed Hall are interviewed as well. Here’s the article: For Political Cartoonists, the Irony Was That Facebook Didn’t Recognize Irony As Facebook...
The role of political satire in the age of social media | Post
https://editorialcartoonists.com/the-role-of-political-satire-in-the-age-of-social-media/January 19, 2021- Cartoonists Kevin Kallaugher and Terry Anderson discuss challenges faced by cartoonists around the world and the role of political satire in the age of social media. https://tribune.com.pk/story/2280134/the-untold-story-of-editorial-cartoonists...
Cagle on Big Tech and Section 230 | Post
https://editorialcartoonists.com/209972-2/January 19, 2021- In the wake of Trump’s permanent Twitter ban, Daryl Cagle has a few thoughts on Big Tech, free speech and censorship: https://www.gbtribune.com/opinion/big-tech-right-wing-media-and-cartoonist-logic/...
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https://editorialcartoonists.com/relive-all-the-moments-you-didnt-like-the-first-time/December 31, 2020- The annual review of the annual cartoons is here — and boy howdy is it a flaming dumpster dive this year. Relive all the moments you’ve already blocked out, starting with Matt Wuerker’s look back at a annus horribilis https://www.politico.com/cartoons/2020/12/28/matt-wuerker-cartoons-best-of-2020-000196?slide=0 Before we sack 2020, check out this stack of 2020...
