Annual Convention

Annual Convention September 11-14, 2025

The AAEC will be joining the line-up at this year’s Small Press Expo as part of our annual convention in September 2025. Registration is now open.

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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS:

ACC:
ASSOCIATION OF CANADIAN CARTOONISTS
NCS:
NATIONAL CARTOONISTS SOCIETY

THE BILLY IRELAND CARTOON LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

CARTOONISTS RIGHTS

FREEDOM CARTOONISTS FOUNDATION

THE DAILY CARTOONIST

COUNTERPOINT

THE NIB

 

CARTOONIST PODCASTS:

DMZ AMERICA:

DMZ America with Ted Rall and Scott Stantis

CARTOONIST TALK:

A Talk with Editorial Cartoonists by Angelo Lopez

POLITICS INK:

Politics Ink with Jim Morrissey

CAGLECAST:

Daryl Cagle’s Caglecast

 

Correction: Grambs Aronson Award for Cartooning With a Conscience

The Grambs Aronson Award for Cartooning With a Conscience

Presented by:  Hunter College Department of Film & Media Studies and an Awards Committee of cartoonists, graphic artists, journalists and media observers.

Description: Recognizes satiric graphic art that shows distinction in some combination of the following: creative mastery of artistic technique; coherent, compassionate social vision; inventive comic narrative; innocation in forms or media of cartooning. Open to editorial cartooning and graphic topical satire, including animation.

Requirements: Individuals should submit a portfolio with ten pieces maximum, plus a personal/professional statement (300 words maximum). Entries should have appeared in print or digital media during 2010.

Entry fee: $30 for staff, for-profit and syndicated artists; $15 non-profit publications and freelancers

Deadline: Jan. 14, 2011

Rules and entry form: brie.hunter.cuny.edu/aronson

Send entries to: Submit work online; mail fee, statement and form to Carto0oning With a Conscience, c/o Peter Parisi, Department of Film & Media Studies, Room 433, North Building, Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021

For more information: pparisi@hunter.cuny.edu; 212/772-5041 or 772-4949

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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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LOCHER FELLOWSHIP

The AAEC John Locher Memorial Fellowship is awarded each year to one early-career cartoonist whose work demonstrates clear opinions and strong artistry on political and social topics. Deadline to be considered is the end of March.

The Locher Fellow will receive a one-year Regular membership in the AAEC, be a guest of the CXC Festival — held every fall in Columbus, Ohio —  and have the opportunity to meet with editorial cartoonists during the year of the Fellowship for portfolio reviews and career advice.

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CARTOONS FOR THE CLASSROOM

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.