Cartooning Awards Round-Up

* Alan Gardner caught that the cartoonist Robert Ariail became the first American cartoonist to win the United Nations' Ranan Lurie Political Political Cartoon Award. Ariail wins $10,000 and will receive the award from the UN Secretary General. Second and third place went to cartoonists from Switzerland and Israel.

* according to a report in the Tehran Times, the Cuban cartoonist Aristides Esteban Hernandez Guerrero (Ares) won the big prize given out at the 9th Tehran International Cartoon Biennial, I'm guessing for the cartoon reprinted here. International cartoon exhibitions are to comics coverage what state karate tournaments in that neither entity can hope to cover all of them or even sort them out, but this sounds like a major one with some good work. Cartoonists from the Ukraine, Turkey and China won divisional prizes.

* via the FPI Blog comes this report that indicates two Times cartoonist took home awards from the Political Cartoonist Society. Peter Brookes was named Political Cartoonist Of The Year, while Morten Morland won for best single image.
 
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