Results of World Press Cartoon 2122

From World Press Cartoon.

Dutch cartoonist Matias won first prize in the Caricature category and the Grand Prize of the 2122 World Press Cartoon competition in Caldas da Rainha.

"Let Us Prey"

 From Barry Blitt's Facebook page.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with you", the tiresome response of the GOP after a mass shooting.

Gábor Pápai, winner of the Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning 2022

  From Fany Blog.

The Freedom Cartoonists Foundation, which defends freedom of expression in a spirit of dialogue, and the City of Geneva awarded their 2022 International Prize to European cartoonists Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine) and Gábor Pápai (Hungary). 

Jury: Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch (president), Sami Kanaan, City of Geneva and cartoonists Ann Telnaes (USA), Kak (France) and Chappatte (Switzerland).

Vladimir Kazanevsky, winner of the Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning 2022

 From Fany Blog.

The Freedom Cartoonists Foundation, which defends freedom of expression in a spirit of dialogue, and the City of Geneva awarded their 2022 International Prize to European cartoonists Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine) and Gábor Pápai (Hungary).

Jury: Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch (president), Sami Kanaan, City of Geneva and cartoonists Ann Telnaes (USA), Kak (France) and Chappatte (Switzerland).

Winners of the 25th Gabrovo Biennial

From The Museum of Humour and Satire. 

From 81 cartoons by 69 cartoonists selected by Anne Derenne, Alla Georgieva, António Antunes, Niels Bo Bojesen and Rayma Suprani, the winners are:

Pulitzer Prize Cartoonists Pen Protest Letter to Pulitzer Board

From the AAEC website.

Ten days after the 2022 Pulitzer Prizes were announced, 33 cartoonists who have won or been finalists for the award signed an unprecedented open letter to the Pulitzer Board about recent changes to the prize.

After quietly expanding the parameters of the Editorial Cartoonist category in 2020 to include illustrators and graphic reporters, the Board that presides over the judging process for journalism’s biggest award renamed the category “Illustrated Reporting and Commentary” at the end of last year. 

This unannounced move came months after the Pulitzer Committee refused to pick a winner among the three qualified finalists in 2021, and 99 years after the Editorial Cartoonist” category was created.

Last week the AAEC sent a letter to the Pulitzer Board petitioning the restoration of the award, and now almost three dozen recipients of the Prize are collectively seeking the same thing. Here is their letter in its entirety.

Lalo Alcaraz profiled in The New Yorker

Graciela Mochkofsky in The New Yorker (excerpt).

Like many prestigious awards that recognize great accomplishment in this country, the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning, created in 2004 to commemorate the legacy of the late Washington Post cartoonist Herb Block, had never been offered to a nonwhite person—until this year. 

While accepting the prize at the Library of Congress on the evening of April 27th, Lalo Alcaraz, a Chicano from San Diego, California, said what many of his friends and followers were posting on social media: “It’s about time.”