The new executive board of the AAEC

 From the AAEC website.

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News

The members of the Association of American Cartoonists have voted their new executive board:

AAEC Officers 2021-2022

• President: Jen Sorensen, The Nib
• Vice President: Ed Hall, freelance
• Secretary-Treasurer: Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons
• Immediate Past President: Kevin Siers, The Charlotte Observer
• Director: Tim Campbell, Washington Post News Service & Syndication (2nd year)
• Director: Liza Donnelly, The New Yorker (2nd year)
• Director: Gretchen Koch (1st year)
• International Advisor: Patrick Chappatte, freelance
• Digital Editor & cat herder: JP Trostle
• General Manager: Kelsey Maher

 

Private Eye editor looks at satirising 2020

 From The Irish Examiner.

Ian Hislop in the Private Eye office

Ian Hislop, editor of the UK satirical magazine Private Eye, and team captain on political panel show Have I Got News For You, has every reason to be thoroughly pessimistic.

Cartooning the Trump Years: The View from Opposing Political Planets

 From Politico.

Corrupt villain or mistreated hero? Liberal and conservative Americans saw two very different Trumps—and so did North American cartoonists.

Editor of Politico’s Cartoon Carousel, a weekly compilation of cartoons from across the political spectrum, Matt Wuerker has seen the hardening of these divides in real time. 

As liberal cartoonists sketched Trump's presidency as a mounting series of horrors, their counterparts on the right turned the celebrity businessman into a kind of crusading folk hero.

You will find in this article examples of diverging views on the following subjects: The Inauguration, Trump and Russia, Charlottesville, Syria, Trade Wars, Trump and Kim Jong Un, Brett Kavanaugh's Nomination, The Mueller Report, The Wall, Immigration, Fake News, Impeachment, Covid, George Floyd Protests, A Racial Awakening, The 2020 Election, The Election Aftermath and The Capitol Riot.

Good riddance!

We guessed very early, with “alternative facts” appearing on day one, that Donald Trump would be an uncommun president. The events of January 6 have made sure that he will be remembered as the worst in the history of the United States.

 

"Into the Swamp: The Social and Political Satire of Walt Kelly’s Pogo" Exhibition

 From The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Into the Swamp: The Social and Political Satire of Walt Kelly’s Pogo, an exhibition curated from the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) collections, showcases political satire and commentary using a motley group of swamp critters from Walt Kelly’s newspaper comic strip Pogo. 

Into the Swamp is on view January 30 through October 31, 2021 with a temporary closing April 19 through June 11, 2021 at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Admission is free.

News from Patrick Oliphant

From The Santa Fe New Mexican. 

Richard Nixon victory salute, April 23, 1994, Library of Congress

Political cartoonist Patrick Oliphant kept some of his hate mail. Some of it he memorized and can still recite verbatim.

Some of it he crumpled into a ball and tossed aside. 

Some are now housed in the archives at the University of Virginia, a curious memento from a career that lasted for more than half a century and defined political parody in some of the most prominent newspapers in the United States.

Images of the attack on the Capitol

 From Fast Company.

Lea Millis, Reuters

Donald Trump’s presidency is in its last gasps, but photographs taken during Wednesday’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will remain a visceral reminder of how hard he tried to fight reality.

Jordan Alert – Emad Hajjaj

 From Cartooning for Peace.

"Israel asks the United States not to sell F35 to the United Arab Emirates"

The Criminal Magistrate’s Court of Amman (Jordan) has decided to cease the prosecution of cartoonist Emad Hajjaj.

Cartooning for Peace welcomes the court’s decision, taken at a hearing on 23 December 2020, to drop charges against the cartoonist for “contempt of a president of a foreign country against the provisions of 122/1 of the Penal Code” following the publication of the above cartoon .

The final AAEC Notebook

 From Twitter.

The annual AAEC Notebook is back from the printer and headed out to members this week! 

As this may be the last print edition of the 63-year-old editorial cartoonist publication, we wanted to go out with a bang. Good riddance, 2020.

Happy 2021 !

 

Cartoon by Dale Cummings

Cartoon by Dušan Petričić