About Face: The Art of Jota Leal

From Amazon.

This remarkable compilation brings together the best of painter Jota Leal's surreal celebrity portraits. This volume has something for anybody who is captivated by the famous and iconic figures around us. 

1st International Cartoon Exhibition Sisak 2015

Drawings by Zoran Petrovic

Here is the poster of the first international exhibition of caricatures in Sisak (MIKS) 2015.

The theme of the exhibition is "Jazz & Blues".
Deadline for receiving cartoons is June 30, 2015

Rules & Regulations:

Citizen photographer Julie Oliver wins National Newspaper Award

From The Ottawa Citizen.

Citizen photographer Julie Oliver has won a National Newspaper Award for a series of photos she took of Ottawa's 14-year-old "butterfly child," Jonathan Pitre, seen here staying warm in front of a heater as he waits for his bandages to be reapplied. Jonathan suffers from the rare disease Epidermolysis Bullosa, which leaves his skin severely blistered.

The Ottawa Citizen won two National Newspaper Awards Friday evening for photography and feature writing.

"Political Satire in Alberta" at the Glenbow Museum

From the Glenbow website.

Tom Innes, The Calgary Herald

Sometimes irreverent, sometimes contentious, always thought-provoking: this exhibition of political cartoons includes 60 works from Alberta editorial cartoonists working throughout the 20th Century.

Drawing the line: Cartoonists under threat

From the Committee to Protect Journalists.

This wry cartoon by Signe Wilkinson, which won the 2015 World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon competition, sums up the dangers faced by cartoonists, which include censorship, lawsuits, attacks, and murder. 

On January 7, two gunmen burst into the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing eight journalists and bringing into focus the risks cartoonists face. But with the ability of their work to transcend borders and languages, and to simplify complex political situations, the threats faced by cartoonists around the world—who are being imprisoned, forced into hiding, threatened with legal action or killed—far exceed Islamic extremism.

"Drawing the line: Cartoonists under threat", a Committee to Protect Journalists special report by Shawn W. Crispin can be found here.

Bruce MacKinnon wins 2014 National Newspaper Award

The National Newspaper Awards were announced at an awards ceremony Friday night in Toronto.
Top prize in the Editorial Cartoon category, as well as nomination for best journalist of the year, went to Bruce MacKinnon for this cartoon on the assassination of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo.

Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle Herald

The other finalists:

Reuben Awards 2015

From the National Cartoonists Society website.

Art by Tom Richmond

The 69th Annual Reuben Awards Weekend will be held this weekend in Washington D.C.

Here is the speaker lineup and special award winners:

Mort Drucker- First recipient of the “NCS Medal of Honor”; Speaker

Jeff Keane- Recipient of the NCS “Silver T-Square” for outstanding dedication to the Society
Brian Crane- Reuben winning creator of the syndicated comic strip “Pickles”; speaker
Doug Mahnke- Superstar comic book artist; speaker
Mark Anderson- Gag cartoonist, “Andertoons.com”; speaker
Juana Medina- Illustrator, first recipient of the Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship; speaker
Nick Galifianakis- Cartoonist, author, illustrator; speaker
Ann Telnaes, Pulitzer prize winning editorial cartoonist; moderating a panel on “Cartooning and Free Speech”

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