The 2023 Doug Wright Awards
From the Doug Wright Awards.The 2023 Doug Wright Awards, hosted by Dustin Harbin, will be streamed tonight at 8 pm on YouTube.The list of nominees can be found here.
View Article23rd World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition (Results)
First Prize: Ali Miraee, USAThe jury, composed of five members of World Press Freedom Canada committee, met on April 11 to select the winners of the 23rd World Press Freedom International Editorial...
View ArticleJoel Pett Wins 2023 RFK Cartoon Award
From The Daily Cartoonist. Joel Pett of The Lexington Herald-Leader was named the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Cartoon Award for 2023.It is the second time Joel took the honor, he had...
View ArticleBruce MacKinnon wins National Newspaper Award 2022
From the NNA Twitter account.Bruce MacKinnon of the Halifax Chronicle Herald was the winner in the Editorial Cartooning category at the 74th edition of the National Newspaper Awards for the eight...
View ArticleBruce McCall Dies at 87
William Grimes in The New York Times.Bruce McCall, whose satirical illustrations for National Lampoon and The New Yorker conjured up a plutocratic dream world of luxury zeppelin travel, indoor golf...
View ArticleSam Gross Dies at 89
From Wikipedia.Famed National Lampoon and New Yorker cartoonist Sam Gross died yesterday.Born in the Bronx on August 7, 1933, Gross was the son of Max and Sophie, who were Jewish immigrants to...
View ArticleClay Bennett Wins the 2023 National Headliner Award
From The Daily Cartoonist. The Chattanooga Times Free Press cartoonist Clay Bennett has received the 2023 National Headliner Award for Editorial Cartoons.Bennett’s work is published on the Chattanooga...
View ArticleThe House of Editorial Cartooning in Paris
This message is to give you, editorial cartoonists, an update on the project of the Maison du dessin de presse. In April 2023, the call for tenders for the Maison du dessin de presse project was...
View Article"Nineteenth-Century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists"
From Manchester University Press.Nineteenth-Century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists provides an in-depth analysis of fifteen women illustrators of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries:...
View ArticleSupreme Court rules against Warhol Foundation in Prince photo copyright case
From The Washington Post.Prince, photographed by Lynn Goldsmith in 1981The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a photographer who claimed the late Andy Warhol should have honored her copyright on a...
View ArticleCartoonist Falls for Hoax
From CTV News.Cartoon by Dana Summers, Triune Content Agency.The Mid Hudson News reports that the story of homeless veterans being kicked out of hotels in Newburgh in order to take in migrants was a...
View ArticleMy caricatures at the World Humor Awards
From World Humor Awards.Here are my entries for the World Humor Awards, held in Italy since 2016.
View ArticleThe End of The Nib
From The Nib. Illustration by Jim RuggMatt Bors writes:After ten years of publishing, The Nib is going to close down this summer. The new issue of our magazine, the Future issue, will be our last. We...
View ArticleAbecor wins the 2023 Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award
From Cartoonists Rights.Abel Bellido Cordova (Abecor), of the Página Siete news service in Bolivia is the 2023 winner of the Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award. A talented folk musician and...
View ArticleNancy Beiman Introduces "Fur Babies"
From Fur BabiesVeteran animator Nancy Beiman retired last Fall and then when Winter came, took up comic stripping.Sometimes you don’t choose a career; it chooses you.I studied, animated, designed,...
View ArticleReuben Award finalists in Editorial Cartooning
From the National Cartoonists Society.The short list for the NCS Reubens are out, and Clay Bennett, Matt Davies and Ruben Bolling are the nominees for the Editorial Cartooning division.
View ArticlePedro X. Molina, 2023 Havel Prize Laureate
From the Human Rights Foundation.Nicaraguan political cartoonist Pedro X. Molina is one of the recipients of the 2023 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent.This year’s laureates will be...
View ArticleIranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani transferred to a Tehran hospital
From Cartoonist for Peace.According to the latest information provided by her lawyer and shared by the Committee to Protect Journalists and Cartoonists Rights, Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani was...
View Article"Draw for Change!" Exhibition
From Draw for Change. The Comics Art Museum in Brussels will host the Draw For Change! exhibition from July 4 to August 28 and from October 21 to November 5, 2023.Curated by Melanie Andreu, it presents...
View ArticleWhen cartoons upset Indian nationalists
From Chappatte's website. At the end of April, one of my cartoons published in German magazine Der Spiegel caused quite a stir in India.Tweets from ministers, a media craze, an embarrassed German...
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