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!


Rex Babin Award nominee #10 — Peter Evans

Peter Evans may be the local cartoonist at its most fundamental. Drawing for The Islander News, "a highly-subscribed" weekly newspaper on the island of Key Biscayne in Metro Miami, Peter only covers what happens on the jot of land south of Miami Beach.

"Cartoons, generally, do not advocate action," says Evans. "But many issues that my cartoons have raised have come to fruition — a dog park, iguana population control, sea rise preparation, playing field improvements, even a good burger.

"In today’s tough newspaper environment, I am our paper’s longest serving employee — 22 years. And when new owners conducted a reader survey to seek further economies, they felt my continued employment was ‘non-negotiable."

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[Throughout his life, Rex Babin championed those who focused on state and local issues in editorial cartoons, a field that he and other cartoonists felt was regularly overlooked by journalism contests. The "Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning" was launched in 2017 to celebrate those working in this niche. To that end, we will be showcasing each cartoonist who entered the contest this year, one or two each day in alphabetical order (more or less), leading up to the AAEC Convention in Sacramento, CA, and the announcement of the award winner on Saturday, Sept. 22.]

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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.



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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.