Jen Sorensen Wins 2014 Herblock Award

Jen Sorensen, cartoonist for the Austin Chronicle and other US papers, has become the first woman to win the coveted Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.

The annual award was created to recognise editorial cartooning as an essential vehicle for freedom of speech and the right of expression.

Jen Sorensen Wins 2023 Berryman Award

From The Daily Cartoonist.

The National Press Foundation has awarded Jen Sorensen the 2023 Berryman Award for editorial cartooning.

The judging panel noted the high quality of candidates from across the country. They were impressed with Sorensen’s “unique” skill in taking on a “galaxy of issues.”

“[Her] cartoons aren’t just reacting to one thing that happened in the news, she looks at bigger trends.”

Sorensen will accept the award, which comes with a $2,500 prize, at NPF’s annual awards dinner on February 15, 2024.

Female Cartoonists On Drawing Hillary Clinton

From The Huffington Post.

Cartoon by Signe Wilkinson

Signe Wilkinson, Ann Telnaes and Jen Sorensen are three women cartoonists who’ve watched Clinton transform from a first lady to a senator to secretary of state to a presidential candidate.

Many condemn the non Pulitzer Award for Editorial Cartooning

 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 mystified by the pointed rejection of talented Finalists as well as the many other artists who have been creating powerful work in these most eventful and challenging of times.

Why Newspapers Need to Invest More in Political Cartoons

Rob Tornoe in Editor & Publisher.

After an era marked by downsizing and low morale, many newspapers are experiencing a rebirth of their journalistic vigor thanks to the campaign and subsequent election of Donald Trump as president.

Newspaper editorial cartoons face 'existential threat'

From CBC Radio.

The editorial cartoon is facing an "existential threat" in the face of shrinking newsrooms and meme culture, according to a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist.

"Editorial cartoons … do cause a lot of trouble,' said Nick Anderson, who draws for The Washington Post Writers Group.

Vermont Publisher Defends Editorial Cartoons

 Paula Routly in Seven Days.

Self-portrait by Tim Newcomb

Every week, Seven Days publishes an assortment of cartoons. Most of them are in the back of the paper in a section called Fun Stuff.

That name is a bit of a deception. Cartoons aren't always lighthearted. Over the last few years, the strips we've published have offered searing political commentary and memorable caricatures. 

The new AAEC Executive Board

From the AAEC website.

The members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists have voted for their new Executive Board. Jen Sorensen is now President-elect and Tim Campbell has been chosen Director.

Tim has been elected for a 2-year term, and Jen will step up to President in January 2021.

Elected to another term and returning to the Board are Mike Thompson (Vice President), Monte Wolverton (Treasurer) and Liza Donnelly (Director). They’ll be joining current members Ed Hall (Director), Pat Bagley (Past President) and Kevin Siers (President) as they enter the second year of their terms.

Matt Bors, 2012 Herblock Prize Winner

Glenn Fleishman from Boing Boing:

Alt Cartoonist Receives High Praise from Establishment


Stereotypes abound of the political cartoonists found in so-called alternative papers: the weeklies full of escort ads in the back and snarky commentary in the front. Matt Bors, on the surface, seems to embody the characteristics.

He's scruffy, doesn't own a suit, and lives in Portland. He expresses withering contempt at politicians, mainstream media, and what he views as hypocrisy. He's never made more than $15,000 a year from his cartoons, and supplements that income with illustration, freelance editorial jobs, and, possibly, blood plasma—at least he did in college; he has the scar to prove it.

CXC 2020 is Online This Week

 

The 6th annual Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival will be held online starting this Thursday, October 1.

This year's festival features all-ages workshops, exclusive cartoonist interviews, panel discussions, interactive games, and more! All events are free to attend!

Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists and the First Amendment

From the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum website.

Pillars, Jimmy Margulies, August 16, 2018.

What do current debates about social media, trigger warnings, fake news, and libel have to do with the First Amendment and editorial cartoonists?

The uncertain future of editorial cartooning

From Fast Company.

Fast Company conducted a Zoom roundtable with a trio of some of the best political artists and illustrators working today: Pulitzer Prize winner Barry Blitt, Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Ohman, and Pulitzer finalist and Herblock Prize winner Jen Sorensen.

AAEC Members Elect New Board of Directors

The 2013-14 Board of Directors of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is as follows:

President: Mark Fiore, self-syndicated
President-Elect: Jack Ohman, The Sacramento Bee (CA)
Vice President: Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News (NY)
Secretary-Treasurer: Robert C. Harvey, Perpendicular Pronoun Press
Directors: Jen Sorensen, Daily Kos

                Ann Telnaes, The Washington Post

                Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons.

Matt Wuerker, Politico, will also serve on the 2013-14 Board as Immediate Past President.

Tom Tomorrow wins 2013 Herblock Award

Michael Cavna in Comic Riffs.

The Herblock Prize continues to be one of the least tradition-bound cartooning honors around.
Alt-weekly ’pathfinder’ Dan Perkins (Tom Tomorrow) calls it ‘an overwhelming honor’

The secret to cartooning Donald Trump

Michael Cavna in The Washington Post.

Steve Breen, The San Diego Union-Tribune

To seek editorial enlightenment, The Post’s Comic Riffs turned to Nate Beeler, Berkeley Breathed, Steve Breen, Jack Ohman, Jen Sorensen, Scott Stantis, Signe Wilkinson, Matt Wuerker and Adam Zyglis,  nine of the nation’s top political artists.

The question: What aspects are the most intriguing, or challenging, in trying to skewer the The Donald?

Next week, we’ll take on Hillary Clinton.

Political Cartoonists on facing Donald Trump

Zach Rabiroff in The Comics Journal.

Trump's ABC by Ann Telnaes

Zach Rabiroff for The Comics Journal investigates the state of political cartooning as the practitioners face a revitalized and seemingly very powerful Donald Trump who is entering his second term as President of the United States with few limits in his way. 

Editorial Cartoonists at the National Society of Newspaper Columnists

 From the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.

AAEC President Jen Sorensen‬ has won First Place for her editorial cartoons from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. 

This is the first year the NSNC has included a category for cartooning, and it is a welcome addition to the annual slate of journalism awards.

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

 

The 2024 Herblock Prize

From the Herblock Foundation.

Steve Brodner has been named the winner of the 2024 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. 

Steve Brodner has been a leading satiric artist for the last 40 years. 

His goal during this time was to find an outlet for various forms of political and social commentary in the world of independent, freelance art.

Political cartoonists invading Salt Lake City

Tom Wharton in The Salt Lake Tribune.

Don’t tell political cartoonist Matt Wuerker that he works in a dying business or that the traditional print form of lampooning is an endangered species.