NFB movies become books

From CBC Books.

The National Film Board of Canada will be adapting celebrated NFB animated and documentary films and media projects into books.

Ann Telnaes Wins Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year

From the National Cartoonists Society website.

The recipient of the profession’s highest honor, the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year is chosen by a secret ballot of NCS members and was awarded this year to editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes for her unmatched cartoon coverage of the 2016 election and ensuing Trump Administration. 

Pieter De Jaegher wins the 5th Niels Bugge Cartoon Award

From Niels Bugge's website.

Cartoonists Alexandr Pshenyanikov, Pieter De Jaegher and Vladan Nikolic.

Artists from Belgium, Ukraine and Serbia have won the Niels Bugge Cartoon Award focusing this year on communication.

Geoff Olson pens last column for The Vancouver Courier

From Scribble and Skvetch.

I’ve been terminated as a columnist to The Vancouver Courier. The May 18 piece, noting the news, was also rejected.

2017 World Press Cartoon Awards Show

From Fany-blog.

The World Press Cartoon 2017, will announce the nine winners of the various categories on June 10 in Caldas da Rainha.

The 2017 awards will be given to Fernandes, Baptistão (Brazil), Gio (Italy), Bonil (Ecuador), Cost (France), Kountouris (Greece), Alireza Pakdel (Iran), Toshow (Serbia) and Swen (Switzerland).

Former Detroit News cartoonist Larry Wright dies at 77

From The Detroit News.

Cartoonist Larry Wright died Sunday following a brief illness.

During a 45-year span that began with the Detroit Free Press and spanned more than three decades at The Detroit News, Mr. Wright was known nationally for his comic strips “Wright Angles” and “Kit ‘N’ Carlyle,” as well as for editorial-page cartoons that neatly caricatured the haughty and the hypocritical.

Cartoonist Sophie Labelle in hiding after transphobic threats escalate

Ian McGillis in The Montreal Gazette.

Cartoonist Sophie Labelle has achieved a degree of fame with her webcomic Assigned Male, the serialized story of a male-to-female transgender girl named Stephie and her daily life negotiating gender issues in modern-day Montreal.