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June 2, 2008
Recent Awards
Clay Bennett is this year's recipient of the Thomas Nast Award for best cartoons on international affairs from the Overseas Press Club of America. Presented at the organization's 69th annual award banquet, Bennett, now the cartoonist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, was recognized for a portfolio of work published in his previous newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor. This is Bennett's second Nast Award, having received his first in 2005. The runner-up citation went to Mike Luckovich, of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Accepting the award, Bennett said, "I accept this honor not as any recognition of artistic talent, nor as a testament to any inherent wit or wisdom. I accept this award as a tribute to my neurotic insecurity and the obsessive work ethic it inspires."
Signe Wilkinson has been awarded this year's Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for editorial cartooning. Regarding The Daily News' editorial cartoonist, judges wrote that her work was instrumental in moving the issue of violence in disadvantaged neighborhoods and schools to the top of the Philadelphia's agenda. Her cartoons offered a "steady drumbeat of funny, moving and shocking images," and "her series attacking gun violence in Philadelphia spared no one and drew complaints from everyone -- the hallmark of any good cartoonist."
Bruce Mackinnon, editorial cartoonist for the The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has been honored with this year's Atlantic Journalism Award for editorial cartooning. The AJA recognizes journalistic excellence and achievement in print and electronic news media in Atlantic Canada. Finalists for the award include Michael de Adder of the The Daily News (Halifax, NS) and Greg Perry of the Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, NB).
And finally, Gary Varvel won the Indiana SPJ award for the Best Editorial
Cartoon of 2007. This marks the 10th time since 1992 Varvel has won the honor
from the Indiana Indiana Society of Professional Journalists.
Source: The Daily Cartoonist, The Notebook