Cartoon Crossroads Columbus 2022

From CXC 2022.

CXC 2022 Poster Art and Logo by Robyn Smith, Design by Geoff Raker

Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC), the international showcase for cartoon art, is excited to announce its featured guests for the 2022 festival running October 6th to 9th, the organization’s first fully in-person festival since 2019. 

CXC brings the global family of cartoon storytellers, comic makers, and animators together with the people who love and are inspired by cartoon art, and connects them in Columbus, Ohio.

The 76th annual Reuben Awards

From the National Cartoonists Society website.

The 76th annual Reuben Awards will be held in Kansas City, MO on Thursday 15th & Friday 16th September, 2022.

We hope you will join us for captivating seminars from the industries’ biggest names, opportunities to celebrate achievements in cartoon arts, and of course, the legendary NCS parties that you and your peers will talk about for years to come!

CNN anchor Jake Tapper makes public letter sent to the Pulitzer Board

From the AAEC website.

A few weeks after the AAEC and three dozen past Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists protested recent changes to the Editorial Cartooning category of journalism’s ‘biggest award’, aspiring cartoonist (and CNN anchor) Jake Tapper has written to the Pulitzer Prize Board encouraging them to rethink their decisions. 

Here is the letter Tapper sent, reprinted here with his permission.

Pulitzer Prize Controversy

Rob Tornoe in Editor & Publisher.

In May, Insider won a Pulitzer Prize, joining a small group of digital-only news organizations awarded journalism’s top prize. 

But like Politico back in 2012, the recognition came in an unlikely category for an online news organization — cartooning.

Word Press Cartoon 2022

 

Clay Jones Wins 2022 RFK Human Rights Cartoon Award

From The Columbus Free Press.

Clay Jones of Virginia, is the 2022 winner of the RFK Human Rights Journalism Award in Editorial Cartooning. 

His work was awarded for its "unique style" which is "energetic" using "image and text to comment on larger issues." 

They stated that his cartoons hit on themes of human rights, imbalance of power and systemic racism. 

Gannett Slashes Editorial Pages

JP Trostle from the AAEC website.

Word has trickled down from Gannett (née GatehouseMedia) that, beginning June 1, they will be stripping out the daily editorial/opinion section in the print editions of all their daily papers. 

Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the USA as measured by total daily circulation, announced their Op/Ed pages will now only appear in print on Wednesdays and Sundays.