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!


The Battle for Pittsburgh — UPDATED

By now you've probably heard that Rob Rogers is in a war with his own editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Keith Burris, a pro-Trump sympathizer, has been spiking Rogers' daily cartoons for a couple of weeks now — and readers have begun to notice. The story went national over the past 48 hours and is picking up momentum.

https://wesa.fm/post/pittsburgh-post-gazette-editorial-page-not-publishing-longtime-cartoonists-recent-work#stream/0 

https://www.philly.com/philly/news/donald-trump-political-cartoons-pittsburgh-post-gazette-rob-rogers-20180604.html?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
 
https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/04/media/rob-rogers-pittsburgh-post-gazette-cartoonist/index.html

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/06/04/post-gazette-rob-rogers-cartoons-not-published/

 

While the newspaper isn't running his editorial cartoons, they have no problem crowing about the Golden Quill award Rogers recently won for the same: https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2018/05/24/Post-Gazette-big-winner-Golden-Quill-Awards/stories/201805240202

 

If you want to follow things as they blows up, Rob's facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/robrogerscartoons and Twitter handle is @Rob_Rogers.

 

UPDATE: On Tuesday, June 6, Rob announced he was going on vacation while the situation with his editor is resolved. https://www.facebook.com/robrogerscartoons?hc_ref=ARSJ7YxLMO1_8822EtHk-KK8cpuaMtlPa4tcPFjziCnZKh5tp2AZbm3gg0Wsk9-qlmo&fref=nf

 

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