Announcing the John Locher Memorial Fellowship
For 35 years, the AAEC’s John Locher Memorial Award spotlighted college-age and early-career cartoonists across North America. Named after the late son of Dick and Mary Locher, the AAEC
Peter Dunlap-Shohl worked as cartoonist for the Anchorage Daily News for over 25 years. He produced four editorial cartoons per week, concentrating on local topics. He also created and oversaw a local interactive political cartoon caption contest for which he drew one cartoon a week that readers completed by submitting[...]
Read MoreFor 35 years, the AAEC’s John Locher Memorial Award spotlighted college-age and early-career cartoonists across North America. Named after the late son of Dick and Mary Locher, the AAEC
Above: Don Wright and wife Carolyn host the AAEC Convention in Miami in 1969. The news recently broke that Don Wright, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning
Above, Elena Steier and comics historian R.C Harvey at the AAEC convention in San Francisco in 2014. Cartoonist Elena Steier died earlier this month after
A huge congratulation to Steve Brodner — this year’s winner of the Herblock Prize, the premiere award for editorial cartooning. Brodner is a relentless illustrator
Wrapping up the 2023 contests, Editor & Publisher recently announced the winners of its annual EPPY Awards that “honor the best in digital news publishing.”
The mission of the AAEC is to champion and defend editorial cartooning and free speech as essential to liberty in the United States and throughout the world.
The AAEC aims to be an international leader in support of the human, civil, and artistic rights of editorial cartoonists around the world, and to stand with other international groups in support of the profession.
Every two weeks throughout the year, The Learning Forum and the AAEC offers CARTOONS FOR THE CLASSROOM, a free lesson resource for teachers discussing current events. Visit NIEonline.com for more lesson plans.
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