Annual Convention

Annual Convention October 3-6

The AAEC and Association of Canadian Cartoonists will be teaming up with the Université du Québec à Montréal for a 3-day celebration political cartoonists, October 3-6, 2024.

Online registration coming soon!


Books, books, books!

New retrospective out from Bill Sanders

 
Cartoonist Bill Sanders has a new book out collecting the best of his long career. Sanders, who drew for the Milwaukee Journal from 1967 until his retirement in 1991, has also served as President of the AAEC. With a forward by Jules Feiffer, the hardcover "Against the Grain: Bombthrowing in the Fine American Tradition of Political Cartooning" covers American history from the Ike to Clinton and beyond.
 
The book doubles as an autobiography as Sanders shares the upbringing and experiences that prepared him to inflict his opinions on the readers of the three major newspapers he worked for, the 100-plus papers he was syndicated in, and now, an internet channel.

“It has been almost five years since I started gathering details, files and assorted junk to chronicle, for my daughters, some experiences that I have been fortunate to have had,” said Sanders in a Facebook announcement. “For the last three years have written what is hopefully a coherent version of certain events that span from John Kennedy, to the election of Donald Trump.”

The Sanders memoir is both personal and political. He reveals his small-town Southern roots, his athletic exploits and military service, his courtship and enduring marriage, and his life-long passion for music. These threads are woven into his main narrative, explaining how a cartoonist works and why. 

Against the Grain: Bombthrowing in the Fine American Tradition of Political Cartooning will publish as a Hardcover edition on May 1, 2018, with a forward from syndicated cartoonist and author Jules Feiffer.

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Branco book drops

 

Editorial cartoonist A.F. Branco self-published a new collection of his cartoons over the 4th of July. "Maker America Laugh Again" is now be available on Amazon

 

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Coming soon

"Drawing on Anger: Portraits of U.S. Hypocrisy" is slated for publication this September. A book of Eric García’s most unabashed political cartoons about U.S. history and politics from 2004 to the present, the collection focuses on the larger themes of anti-immigration laws, global imperialism, veterans affairs, and the conquest of the Americas.

From the press release: "For over a decade García has been serving up inked visuals with the sharpest of political critiques through a Chicano lens. Born and raised in Albuquerque’s South Valley, Eric J. García earned his BFA from the University of New Mexico and received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A versatile artist working in an assortment of media, from hand-printed posters to nationally published political cartoons to large-scale public murals, all of his work has a common goal of educating and challenging."

"Drawing on Anger" will be available in September from Mad Creek Books' Latinographix imprint. Order at ohiostatepress.org

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CARTOONS IN EDUCATION

Cartoons in Education

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.