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
Sage Stossel is an editor and a cartoonist who has regularly cartooned for The Atlantic.com, The Boston Globe and the Provincetown Banner. She is the recipient of the award for Best Editorial Cartoon by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and a New England Press Association Award. She was also the 2023 finalist for the Rex[...]
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
The accolades for Clay Bennett continued this week when he was named as a finalist for this year’s pulitzer prize in illustrated reporting and commentary
Cartoonist Clay Bennett is this year’s winner of the Headliner Award from the Press Club of Atlantic City. Mike Thompson and Robert Ariail were named finalists. The
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
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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