Jim Morin wins the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning

From the Pulitzer Prizes website.

For a distinguished cartoon or portfolio of cartoons, characterized by originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing and pictorial effect, published as a still drawing, animation or both, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) is awarded to Jim Morin of Miami Herald.

Nominated as finalists in Editorial Cartooning in 2017:

Winners of the Euro-Kartoenale 2017

From the ECC website.

Cover art by Elena Ospina

Here are the winners of the 21st edition of the Euro-Kartoenale. The contest received 2164 cartoons by 782 artists from 82 different countries.

The prize winners were announced at the award ceremony on April 8th.

Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart faces 29 years in prison

From Cartoonists Rights Network International.

“Date 12 September 1980 – We have found ideal/suitable ground to climb up!”
In a 2004 cartoon published in Cumhuriyet, Kart depicts Fethulla Gülen as having infiltrated the Turkish military after the 1980 coup d’état. Kart is accused by the current regime of supporting Gülen.

After five months of imprisonment Turkey has finally, formally indicted the staff from Cumhuriyet newspaper including cartoonist Musa Kart who, if found guilty, faces a twenty-nine year sentence.

50 years of Aislin at the McCord

Marina Scott in the Montreal Gazette.

In his 50 years as an editorial cartoonist, Terry Mosher — better known as Aislin — has created more than 12,000 cartoons. Half of those are preserved at the McCord Museum.

"Aislin: 50 Years of Cartoons"

From the McCord Museum.

The exhibition Aislin: 50 Years of Cartoons will present a retrospective of the best cartoons created by Aislin over the 50-year course of his far-reaching career.

"La Caricature, 1830-1835 : Lithographies complètes"

From Michael Shamansky, Bookseller.

La Caricature was the 19th Century equivalent and the precursor of Charlie Hebdo. The editor Charles Philipon employed the major satirical artists of the mid-19th Century notably Daumier, Grandville, E. Forest, Charlet, Bellangé, Traviès, Raffet and Gavarni. 

Reprint in the Cartooning for Peace Cartoon Gallery

From Cartooning for Peace.

The original version of Thursday's cartoon in Le Droit was featured in the weekly Cartooning for Peace Cartoon Gallery.