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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The Nib Bids Adieu

After an epic decade, The Nib is shutting down at the end of this month. Publisher and cartoonist Matt Bors explained why:

“After ten years of publication, thousands of comics, and fifteen issues of the magazine, we are shutting down. I am choosing to give it a death with dignity rather than make painful cuts and have it operate as a shadow of itself for a few more years. [I]t will end ten years—almost to the exact day—since I first launched The Nib on Medium in 2013 as a new home for political cartoons and nonfiction comics.”

https://mattbors.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-nib

The site will be maintained as a permanent archive for as long as donations support it. As a thank you to readers — and as a way to keep spreading the stellar work of its hundreds of contributors — Bors is making the PDFs of the quarterly magazine free to download.

Click here while the site is still up: https://membership.thenib.com/donate-free-pdf-downloads

Congrats to the entire Nib team on an amazing 10-year-run!

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OUR MISSION

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.


The Daily Cartoonist

Pat Bagley Leaves Trump’s ‘Merika
Pat Bagley Leaves Trump’s ‘Merika

Portugal, I am led to believe, has a sizable community of American expatriates. Editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley has increased that number. From Pat’s Facebook page...


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.


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.