Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher Wins 2015 Herblock Price



This is welcome news. Kallaugher is a very deserving cartoonist and should win all the awards; he's a throwback to the old days of devotion to craft for effect and real-world displays of creative energy.

The story I always tell about KAL and his split position between the Baltimore Sun and the Economist is that on one particularly long trip hone where I got to play the game "Describe What You Do For A Living To Aging Parents Of Your High School Friends" a bunch of times, KAL's work came up multiple times as someone people were responding to even if they didn't know his name. When someone 10 years younger than me mentioned the Economist work on the same trip, I went looking for the name (it had been escaping me) and have paid attention to him ever since.

The ceremony is May 7 and the award comes with a $15,000 cash prize. The prize is named for Herb Block, a titan of late-century cartooning and a man well-invested in news media stock when that meant something, an active foundation being the result.

You can see the winning portfolio of work here.
 
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