KEITH KNIGHT is the winner of the 2010 Inkpot Award for achievement in the Comic Arts, announced at San Diego ComicCon. Knight describes the big moment, “ComicCon International’s David Glanzer showed up at my spotlight panel and started gabbin’ on the mic — I thought I was in trouble — and then he pulls out this shiny, pointy award with my name on it!! Nice!! My wife still doesn’t understand why I got it.”
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The winners of awards for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies were announced at the 15th Annual AltWeekly Awards Luncheon on July 16. The winners of the cartoon category were as follows:
First Place: Failure by Karl Stevens (Boston Phoenix)
Second Place: Slowpoke by JEN SORENSEN
Third Place: Idiot Box by MATT BORS (Boston Phoenix)
Honorable Mention: The Critical Line by STEVE GREENBERG (Ventura County Reporter)
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DWANE POWELL, former cartoonist at The News & Observer (Raleigh), received one of six 2010 Medal of Arts awards by the City of Raleigh Arts Commission in July. “The focus is on artistic excellence,” said June Guralnick, executive director of the Arts Commission. “It is for a lifetime achievement in the arts.” The six artists will receive their medals in a ceremony on Oct. 6. “All the candidates selected this year have done so much for the area and for North Carolina,” Guralinick said.
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STEVE GREENBERG won the award for Cartooning in the Southern California Journalism Awards, sponsored by the L.A. Press Club, for a series of cartoons about economic tough times published in the alternative-weekly Ventura County Reporter.
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Accepting his sixth win in seven years, political cartoonist for the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper, DAVID G. BROWN was presented with the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s 2010 Merit Award for “Best Editorial Cartoon.” (See the winning cartoon to the right). The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), also known as the Black Press of America, is a 69-year-old federation of more than 200 Black community newspapers from across the United States. (www.nnpa.org)
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JIMMY MARGULIES won the 2010 Clarion Award for Editorial Cartoons from The Association for Women in Communications, for a portfolio of five cartoons from 2009. He also won first, second and third place for Editorial Cartoons from The Garden State Journalists Association.
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In the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists contest, MIKE SCOTT of newjerseynewsroom.com won first and third for editorial cartoons. MARGULIES won second place. The web site, started by laid off employees of The Star Ledger of Newark, focuses on local state news.
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ED HALL of The Baker County Press won first place in Division C (circulation under 7000) of the Florida Press Association’s 2009 Better Weekly Newspaper contest winners for Original Local Editorial Cartoon:
