BGuthrie Photos: Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2017): Ruben Bolling -- Presentation (w/John Lewis)

Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2017): Ruben Bolling -- Presentation (w/John Lewis):

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Description of Pictures: The Herb Block Foundation cordially invites you to The Herblock Prize Award Ceremony & Lecture.
Prize Winner: Ruben Bolling
Lecturer: Representative John Lewis
Finalist: Marty Two Bulls Sr., a freelance cartoonist who has drawn for the Indian Country Today Media Network.

Speakers in sequence:
* Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
* Marcela Brane, President/CEO of Herblock Foundation
* Ruben Bolling, accepting the prize (after returning from Japan)
* Clarence Page, Herblock Foundation board member
* John Lewis, Keynote Talk
* Q&A: John Lewis and Ruben Bolling

Ken Fisher, AKA Ruben Bolling
Ruben Bolling
Author of "Tom the Dancing Bug"
Ruben Bolling, pen name of Ken Fisher, is the author of the weekly comic strip “Tom the Dancing Bug,” distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication to many newspapers across North America It also appears on: BoingBoing.net, one of the most linked-to websites in the world; DailyKos.com, the U.S.’s largest progressive blog; and Gocomics.com, the largest comic strip website.
“Tom the Dancing Bug” is a free-format comic strip that uses varying types of humor, artistic styles and formats. It’s an unusual strip in that in any given week, it could feature a spoof, a multi-panel sketch, political or absurdist humor, recurring characters or caricatures of real people. But during 2016, political subject matter was at its heart, as it mostly dealt with the election and the rise to power of Donald Trump.
Ruben Bolling was the Finalist for the 2016 Herblock Award. He was the 2014 winner of the Society of Illustrators Best Cartoon Award in its Art Annual. In 2011, Bolling won the Sigma Delta Chi Award from The Society of Professional Journalists, for Editorial Cartooning. “Tom the Dancing Bug” has been twice-nominated for the Harvey Award for Best Comic Strip or Panel, and has won the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Award for Best Cartoon five times.
Ruben Bolling has authored three “Tom the Dancing Bug compilation books: Thrilling Tom the Dancing Bug Stories (Andrews McMeel, 2004); All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned From My Golf-Playing Cats (NBM Publishing, 1997); and Tom the Dancing Bug (HarperCollins, 1992).
In 2015, Ruben Bolling started a series of chapter books for children called the EMU Club Adventures. The first two installments, Alien Invasion in My Backyard and Ghostly Thief of Time, were both published in 2015 by Andrews McMeel. In addition to the weekly comic strip, The New Yorker has published full page color cartoons by Bolling, and original comics by Bolling have been published in such magazines as Nickelodeon, Mad Magazine, ESPN The Magazine and Harper’s.
Bolling lives in New York City with his wife and three children.
The above is from https://www.herbblockfoundation.org/herblock-prize/prize-winners/ken-fisher-aka-ruben-bolling

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. BOLL1_170329_029.JPG: Congressman John Lewis arrives
2. BOLL1_170329_054.JPG: Congressman John Lewis
3. BOLL1_170329_065.JPG: Carla Hayden
4. BOLL1_170329_152.JPG: Marcela Brane (Herb Block Foundation)
5. BOLL1_170329_293.JPG: Ruben Bolling
6. BOLL1_170329_492.JPG: Clarence Page, Herblock Foundation board member
7. BOLL2_170329_015.JPG: Ruben Bolling, John Lewis
8. BOLL2_170329_072.JPG: John Lewis, Ruben Bolling
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Wikipedia Description: Herblock Prize
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The Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning is an annual $15,000 after-tax cash prize, and a sterling silver Tiffany trophy. Designed "to encourage editorial cartooning as an essential tool for preserving the rights of the American people through freedom of speech and the right of expression," it is named for the editorial cartoonist Herblock and sponsored by the The Herb Block Foundation.

The rotating three-judge panel that determines the award-winner is typically composed of the previous year's winner, another editorial cartoonist, and a scholar of editorial cartooning. The award is typically presented some time between March and May of each year, at the Library of Congress.

Each award presentation is accompanied by a guest lecturer who discusses contemporary social issues "in the spirit of Herblock." Previous Herblock Prize guest lecturers include Ben Bradlee, President Barack Obama, Sandra Day O’Connor, Tom Brokaw, Tim Russert, Ted Koppel, George Stevens, Jr., Jim Lehrer, Garry Trudeau, Gwen Ifill, and Bob Woodward.

Finalists for the award have been named since 2011; they receive a $5,000 after-tax prize.

History

When Herb Block died in October 2001, he left $50 million with instructions to create a foundation to support charitable and educational programs that help promote and sustain the causes he championed during his 72 years of cartooning. The Herb Block Foundation is committed to defending the basic freedoms guaranteed all Americans, combating all forms of discrimination and prejudice, and improving the conditions of the poor and underprivileged through the creation or support of charitable and educational programs with the same goals. The Foundation is also committed to improving educational opportunities to deserving students through post-secondary education scholarships and to promoting editorial cartooning through continuing research. The Herb Block Foundation awarded its first grants and the annual Herblock Prize in editorial cartooning in 2004.

In 2011, Ann Telnaes became the first female Herblock Prize finalist. In 2012, Matt Bors became the first alternative-weekly cartoonist to win the Herblock Prize. in 2014, Jen Sorensen became the first female Herblock Prize award-winner.
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- Bolling, Ruben appears on:
  - 2022_MD_SPX_Other Small Press Expo (2022) -- Other
  - 2018_DC_RFK_Journalism_180522 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards (2018) @ Newseum
  - 2017_DC_BollingR_170329 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2017): Ruben Bolling -- Reception
- Brane, Marcela appears on:
  - 2023_DC_RRussell_Award_230522 NPC -- Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award 2023 -- Abecor
  - 2022_DC_AlcarazP_220426 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2022): Lalo Alcaraz -- Presentation (w/Michel Martin)
  - 2022_DC_AlcarazR_220426 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2022): Lalo Alcaraz -- Reception
  - 2022_DC_Wuerker_220425 DC -- Herblock Party (2022) @ Matt Wuerker's
  - 2021_DC_Wuerker_211024 DC -- Herblock Party (2021) @ Matt Wuerker's
  - 2019_DC_Rogers_190622 Newseum -- Inside Media w/Rob Rogers ("Enemy of the People: A Cartoonist's Journey")
  - 2019_DC_DaviesP_190502 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2019): Matt Davies -- Presentation (w/Jake Tapper)
  - 2019_DC_DaviesR_190502 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2019): Matt Davies -- Reception
  - 2018_DC_Corc_SpikedC_181003 DC -- Corcoran School of the Arts and Design -- Event: “Spiked”: A Conversation with Rob Rogers & Ann Telnaes
  - 2018_DC_SuttonP_180509 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2018) -- Ward Sutton -- Presentation (w/Scott Simon)
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- Fisher, Ken ("Ruben Bolling") appears on:
  - 2018_DC_RFK_Journalism_180522 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards (2018) @ Newseum
  - 2017_DC_BollingR_170329 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2017): Ruben Bolling -- Reception
- Hayden, Carla appears on:
  - 2023_08_12G2_NBF_Ward Natl Book Festival 2023 -- Why Fiction Matters with Jesmyn Ward, 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction Winner
  - 2023_08_12C1_NBF_White_Bird Natl Book Festival 2023 -- "White Bird": Deep in the Wonder Universe with R.J. Palacio and Erica S. Perl
  - 2023_08_12A3_NBF_Misc Natl Book Festival 2023 -- Miscelleanous
  - 2023_DC_Iconic_America_230425 WETA and PBS @ GWU Lisner -- Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories (w/David Rubenstein w/Lonnie Bunch, Carla Hayden, and David Brooks)
  - 2023_DC_Gershwin_230301 Library of Congress -- Event: Gershwin Prize
  - 2022_DC_NBF_CSpan_220903 Natl Book Festival 2022 -- Book TV on C-Span2
  - 2019_DC_ALA_Authors American Library Association 2019 conference (Washington, DC) -- Exhibit Hall: Authors
  - 2022_DC_ALA_Authors American Library Association 2022 conference (Washington, DC) -- Exhibit Hall: Authors
  - 2022_DC_Richie_220307 Library of Congress -- Event: Lionel Richie (w/Carla Hayden)
  - 2019_DC_NPHarris_Houdini DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Coolidge): Harry Houdini Collection
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- Lewis, John appears on:
  - 2018_DC_RFK_Human_180605 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Awards (2018) @ Russell Senate Office Bldg
  - 2018_DC_Parkland_1Month_180314 DC -- Rally: Gun control one month after Parkland Shooting @ U.S. Capitol
  - 2017_DC_USCHS_Freedom2_170912 USCHS -- Freedom Award (2017) to Lin-Manuel Miranda -- Formal Presentation
  - 2017_DC_USCHS_Freedom_170912 USCHS -- Freedom Award (2017) to Lin-Manuel Miranda -- Mingling Before and After
  - 2017_DC_BollingR_170329 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2017): Ruben Bolling -- Reception
  - 2016_DC_Lewis_161214 Newseum -- Civil Rights Superhero: An Evening with John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
  - 2016_DC_NBF_March3_160924 Natl Book Festival 2016 -- Rep. John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
  - 2016_DC_JLewis_Office DC -- Capitol Hill -- Cannon HOB -- Congressman John L Lewis' Office
  - 2016_CA_SDCCP01_160723 San Diego Comic-Con International (2016) -- Panel: MARCH: Featuring Congressman John Lewis
  - 2016_CA_SDCCA San Diego Comic-Con International (2016) -- Artists
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- Page, Clarence appears on:
  - 2023_DC_TelnaesR_230508 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2023): Ann Telnaes -- Reception
  - 2023_DC_TelnaesP_230508 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2023): Ann Telnaes -- Presentation (w/Jamie Raskin)
  - 2022_DC_Pen_Faulkner_SOTU_221021 PEN/Faulkner's Literary State of the Union
  - 2022_MD_Horror_Darkness_220528 AFI -- "Horror of Darkness" (w/Count Gore De Vol)
  - 2022_DC_AlcarazR_220426 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2022): Lalo Alcaraz -- Reception
  - 2019_DC_Journalists_Mem_190626 NPC -- Announcement of Fallen Journalists Memorial and Foundation
  - 2019_MD_Network_190613 AFI and Washington Monthly -- Fourth Estate Film Series (2019) -- "Network" (w/Beth Reinhard, Clarence Page, Arch Campbell, and Paul Glastris)
  - 2019_DC_DaviesR_190502 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2019): Matt Davies -- Reception
  - 2018_DC_Hefner_Awards_180604 Newseum -- Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards (2018)
  - 2018_DC_SuttonP_180509 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2018) -- Ward Sutton -- Presentation (w/Scott Simon)
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