Stantis Blasts Animation/Pulitzer Link

Editorial and newspaper strip Scott Stantis uses the appearance of the word "zany" in the recent Pulitzer Prize summary statement about cartoonist Walt Handelsman to rip into the awards making animations a part of their method for judging their editorial cartooning category. It's hard to argue against his most basic claim that while they're nice, cartoons simply aren't comic strips. I think the key isn't so much the differences between media, but whether or not the newspapers posting them on-line makes them a part of the category. I would say not, particularly in that podcasts of news reports or commentary on same have yet to be considered a factor in determining those categories. Or Clarence Page appearing on the news to talk about the subject of one of his columns or something like that. At least this doesn't happen as far as I know.

As I've severely disliked to the point of headaches and nausea every animation of this type I've seen, it's kind of discombobulating for me to think of them as added value to anyone's Pulitzer resume, and yet all three category finalists from this year were animators of this type in addition to being traditional cartoonists.
 
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