Your 2009 Cartoon Trust Winners



The Cartoon Art Trust Awards announced its list of winners honored during a fundraising dinner earlier this week. They were:

Strip Cartoon Award: Graham Dury, Davey Jones and Simon Thorp; Viz
Pocket Cartoon Award: Matt Pritchett MBE; Daily Telegraph
Joke Cartoon Award: Robert Thompson; A Variety Of Publications Including Private Eye, The Oldie and The Spectator
Political Cartoon Award: Morten Morland; The Times
Caricature Award: Howard McWilliam The Week
Young Cartoonists Of The Year: Alex Shaw (under 18); Nick Edwards (under 30)
The Pont Prize For Drawing The British Character: Annie Tempest; Country Life.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Michael Heath; The Spectator, Private Eye and Mail on Sunday.

If I remember correctly, pocket cartoons are the little cartoons that appear on things like the letters page; it's a term out of favor here for the lack of such cartoons. The Pont award is named for World War II-era Punch cartoonist Graham Laidler, who drew a series called "The British Character."

Previous winners of the lifetime achievement award include Raymond Briggs and Gerald Scarfe.

The awards were started in 1995 as a fund-raising and publicity mechanism for the Cartoon Museum and its primary backer the Cartoon Art Trust, which held an auction in conjunction with this year's dinner. Among the presenters was film director Mike Leigh.

There are a few supplementary "my night at the dinner" and "congratulations to XXXX" posts around the Internet, such as this one for Michael Heath.

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