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21th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition (Results)
First Prize: Jean-Loïc Bélom, FranceThe jury, composed of the members of World Press Freedom Canada, met on April 13 to select the winners of the 21th World Press Freedom International Editorial...
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The New York Times is Retiring the term "Op-Ed"
From The Daily Heller.A surprising announcement published in The New York Times on April 27 was the crowning blow in a life saga that I call “the end of the world as I've known it.” At the bottom of...
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Nominees of the 2021 Doug Wright Awards
From Doug Wright Awards.17th Annual Doug Wright Awards poster by Robb Mirsky.The Doug Wright Awards are pleased to announce this year’s nominees, selected from works published by Canadian creators in...
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"Trots and Bonnie" by Shary Flenniken
From New York Review Books.In the 1970s and 1980s, National Lampoon was home not only to some of the funniest humor writing in America but also to many of its best cartoons. One of the greatest was...
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Michael de Adder wins National Newspaper Award 2020
From the NNA website.Michael de Adder of the Halifax Chronicle Herald and Toronto Star was the winner in the Editorial Cartooning category at the 72nd edition of the National Newspaper Awards for the...
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The 2021 Doug Wright Awards
Sophie Bédard is this year’s winner of The Doug Wright Award for best book with Lonely Boys published by Pow Pow Press in Montreal.Veronica Post is this year’s winner of the The Nipper, the Doug...
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No editorial cartoons in Postmedia Opinion pages
From Graeme Mackay's Facebook page.Four of today's big Canadian city papers (the Calgary Herald, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen, and the Regina Leader Post) are running stock photos in the...
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AAEC cancels in-person convention in 2021
From the AAEC website.The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has joined other cartoon festivals in dropping their plans for an in-person convention in 2021. The AAEC had been in talks with...
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Clay Jones Suspended from Facebook
Cartoonist Clay Joneshas been suspended from the Facebook platform for unspecified violations of community standards. He has appealed.
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"The Dog Show: Two Centuries of Canine Cartoons" at Ohio State
Snoopy, Biscuit, Grimmy, Marmaduke, Farley, Otto, Earl, Odie, Snert, Dawg, Sandy and Ruff.Art by Eric Reaves. The Ohio State University Libraries presents The Dog Show: Two Centuries of Canine...
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My Top 10
"The Third World" was drawn on May 21, 1979. This version dates from November 28, 1985.To mark my 40th anniversary at Le Droit, the newspaper published my ten favorite drawings on its website.An...
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Bill Mauldin show at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library of Chicago
Neil Steinberg in The Chicago Sun-Times.“Who is Bill Mauldin?” reads lamppost banners outside the Monroe Building, where “Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin & the Art of War” opened Friday at the...
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Fifty years of Martyn Turner cartoons at The Irish Times
Patrick Freyne in The Irish Times. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill. Background: Martyn TurnerMartyn Turner began contributing cartoons to The Irish Times in the summer of 1971. Half a century later, he's...
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So, You Want to Be a New Yorker Cartoonist
From The New Yorker. Howdy. I’m Emma Allen, and I take it you want to be a New Yorker cartoonist.Before you uncap that pen or dip your quill in the blood of your frenemies, you might want to take these...
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Mort Gerberg Awarded Gold Key Award
From the National Cartoonists Society website.The National Cartoonists Society takes great pleasure in announcing that the Gold Key Award will be presented this year to Mort Gerberg, for his...
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Gaming the Pulitzers
From J.P. Trostle's Facebook page.Over the years I often made friendly bets with other cartoonists on who would win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. We never wagered money but instead...
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A statement from the AAEC on the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes
From the AAEC website.The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists strongly disagrees with the decision by the Pulitzer Board to award no Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning in 2021. We are...
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Adrian Tomine’s “Easing Back”
Françoise Mouly in The New Yorker.For many of us, covid-19 transformed life in a matter of days. We have a bit more leisure when it comes to our return, with each person proceeding at their own pace....
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2020 Sigma Delta Chi Awards in Editorial Cartooning
From the Society of Professional Journalists.The Society of Professional Journalists announced the recipients of the 2020 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism.Matt Davies of Newsday won...
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Anita Kunz’s COVID-Induced Creative Outburst
Françoise Mouly in The New Yorker.“The Daughter of Man, by Renée Francoise Magritte.”I was locked up for fifteen months,” the artist and illustrator Anita Kunz said, when reached in her native...
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