AAEC’s Satire Fest is coming to San Francisco!
The AAEC’s Satire Fest is coming to San Francisco on October 9, 10, 11.
September 11-14, 2025The AAEC will be joining the line-up at this year’s Small Press Expo as part of our annual convention in September 2025. Check back here later this year for registration and hotel information!
The AAEC’s Satire Fest is coming to San Francisco on October 9, 10, 11.
Alan Gardner posted another report to Daily Cartoonist, complete with photos, about the topics covered at the convention on Friday here.
Alan Gardner weighed in with a report (with photos!) on Thursday's panels and Cartoonapalooza at Powell's Bookstore. Read all about it on the Daily Cartoonist
The first coverage from this year’s AAEC confab has begun trickling out of Portland.
Rex Babin on the Portland convention, surviving another year, and r-e-s-p-e-c-t.
A farewell note from your Notebook editor
An interview, an animation and a lecture, by, respectively, Tom Toles, Scott Stantis and Rob Rogers.
AAEC members have had a busy spring… Here are 10 updates.
Joseph S. Colello has undertaken an effort to get cartoonist Rollin Kirby, the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize, commemorated on a U.S. Postal Stamp.
From ComicsDC comes this offer to teachers everywhere: https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2010/05/host-your-own-herblock-exhibit.html
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists sign a petition condemning threats against the South Park creators.
Jack Ohman won first-place award in this year’s Sigma Delta Chi Awards, presented by the Society of Professional Journalists.
The Overseas Press Club of America has named Nate Beeler this year’s recipient of the Thomas Nast Award for editorial cartooning.
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists calls on Apple to change its policy regarding its apps, and stop rejecting them because they “ridicule public figures” and are deemed objectionable: “A vigorous public discourse, opinion, satire and, yes, ridiculing public figures, are essential to journalism and our Democracy.”
Steve Breen of the The San Diego Union-Tribune has been named the winner of the 2010 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition.
And now — Rex Babin
Chris Sharron, a senior at Kent State University, is this the winner of this year's Locher Award Mary Locher wrote, "If you'll remember, Chris came in second in both 2009 and 2008. He attended the AAEC convention in San Antonio in 2008. Chris also won the Charles Schultz Award [as well] so he's having a […]
Need a radical Earth Day card or children’s book? See Stephanie McMillan …
KAL goes to the Middle East, launches iPhone App, and plans to appear at the Nasher Museum.
Animator Mark Fiore has been named this year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning.
Cartoonist Bruce Beattie was apparently one of 48 staffers who were let go from the Daytona Beach News-Journal on Tuesday, as part of a 10% workforce reduction. The paper's editorial board was particularly hard hit, as only person remained who was not terminated, bought out, or accepted early retirement. Beattie has been with the News-Journal […]
From Guy Badeaux comes the following announcement about the 10th International Editorial Cartoon Competition
POLITICO’s Matt Wuerker has won the 2010 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.
Courtesy of Pop Filter comes the announce that Rob Rogers will be puttin in an appearace at Carnegie Mellon on Feb. 4
“Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature,” opens Feb. 4, at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC.
In the wake of the recent attack on Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, the AAEC (re)issues its statement on the Muhammad cartoons and free speech.
Clay Bennett remembers fellow cartoonist and former co-worker Don Addis.
A number of cartoonists have something to be thankful for: Ted Rall a new book, Robert Ariail a new gig, Dick Locher a new sculpture, David Brown a show in Brazil, and more! Read on…
Mike Keefe of the Denver Post has won the 2009 Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning, with Honorary Mentions to Matt Wuerker of Politico and Ann Telnaes of washingtonpost.com.
Rob Rogers has published a 25-year retrospective of his work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. With a Foreword by Dave Barry, “No Cartoon Left Behind! The Best of Rob Rogers” is now available from Carnegie Mellon University Press.
Cartoonist Jeff Koterba has a new book out, and KAL has done a calendar for The Economist
Sometimes you just have to up and walk away. When you are a political cartoonist your two sources of wherewithal are brains and hands. When...
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.
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.
