Tag: AAEC
Canadian Cartoonist Sings About Profession’s ‘Better Days’
Editorial cartoonist Milt Prigree (view Milt’s cartoons here) forwarded me a video from this year’s Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ (AAEC) Convention.
The video features Halifax Chronicle-Herald cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon singing “Better Days,” a song he wrote about the plight of editorial cartoonists amid cutbacks and job eliminations.
For those of you into the popular [...]
While Media Groups Cancel their Conventions, Cartoonists Plan to Rock Seattle
Despite the loss of over a dozen staff political cartoonist jobs in the last year alone and the imminent closure of the sponsoring newspaper for this year’s American Association of Editorial Cartoonists’ (AAEC) convention, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the AAEC is pressing on with its plans to hold its convention in Seattle on July 1-4.
“There has [...]
Are Newspapers Committing Suicide by Cutting their Cartoons?
Syndicated cartoonist and American Association of Editorial Cartoonists president Ted Rall has devoted his column this week to the newest endangered species facing possible extinction - editorial cartoonists.
“Never has the profession been as ideologically, stylistically or demographically diverse. Never has the art been as daring or ambitious. Never have cartoons been as popular or, [...]
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