Prize Winner: Ward Sutton
Lecturer: Scott Simon
Finalist: Steve Brodner, illustrator, caricaturist and political commentator
Speakers in sequence:
* Gayle Osterberg, Library of Congress
* Marcela Brane, President/CEO of the Herblock Foundation
* Ward Sutton, honoree
* Athelia Knight, Herb Block Foundation board member
* Scott Simon
Ward Sutton:
Ward Sutton has been creating biting editorial cartoons for The Boston Globe since 2008. He experiments with size and format, often producing multi-panel cartoons that can read like a graphic novel. In 2010, his full-page “Tea Party Comics” won a gold medal from the Society of Publication Designers.
Sutton has also created cartoons for The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The New York Times,The Nib, In These Times, GQ, The Nation, Time, TV Guide, Rolling Stone, Fusion, MAD Magazine, and many more.
Sutton Impact: The Political Cartoons of Ward Sutton was published in 2005.
Stephen Colbert has said: “Ward Sutton’s satire doesn’t just bite, it maims. He’s the perfect cartoonist for our discordant times.’’
Alarmed by the incoming Trump administration, Sutton drew a “RESIST” poster image and distributed it for free online in 2017. It was downloaded, printed, carried in marches all over the world, and later chosen by American Illustration in its annual competition.
Since 2006, Sutton has semi-secretly been the man behind Stan Kelly, the (fake) editorial cartoonist for the satirical weekly The Onion. His book, Kelly: The Cartoonist America Turns To (TM) was published in 2016.
In addition to cartooning, Sutton has created posters for Broadway, the Sundance Film Festival, and musicians such as Beck, Radiohead, Phish, and Pearl Jam. He has designed, directed and/or produced animation for HBO, Noggin and Comedy Central. His work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, The Society of Publication Designers, The Society for News Design, The Minnesota Page One Awards and The Art Directors Club.
Born in Minnesota, Sutton got his start cartooning for the Edina Sun community newspaper when he was in middle school. He continued at Edina High School’s Zephyrus and St. Olaf College’s Manitou Messenger before launching his first professional political strip, “Ward’s Cleaver,” in the Minneapolis alt-weekly, The Twin Cities Reader. Since then, he has lived in Seattle, New York City, and Costa Rica before finding his current home with his family in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Scott Simon
Scott Simon is one of America’s most admired writers and broadcasters. He has reported from all 50 states, five continents, and 10 wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. He is the host of “NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon,” and Special Contributor for CBS Sunday Morning. He is the author of eight acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction including Pretty Birds, about the siege of Sarajevo, and Windy City, set in the Chicago City Council, and the New York Times bestseller Unforgettable, a book about his last week with his mother in the Intensive Care Unit of Northwestern Hospital. His latest book is My Cubs: A Love Story. Simon has also contributed articles to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and The Los Angeles Times, among other publications. He has also hosted many television specials, including PBS’s Backstage With.. State of Mind, Voices of Vision, and Need to Know. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Peabody, the Emmy, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Studs Terkel Award, the Barry M. Goldwater Human Rights Award, the Randy Shilts Award from the NLGA, and the Charles Osgood Lifetime Achievement Award. He has thrown out the first pitch in Wrigley Field, and in 2016, received the Order of Lincoln from the state of Illinois.
The Board of Directors of The Herb Block Foundation created an annual Herblock Lecture to accompany the awarding of The Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.
The prize was established to honor the courage and independence of Herb Block, whose cartoons graced the pages of The Washington Post under the pen name Herblock for more than half a century.
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 providing educational opportunities to deserving students through post-secondary education scholarships and to promoting editorial cartooning through continued research. All efforts of the Foundation shall be in keeping with the spirit of Herblock, America’s great cartoonist in his life long fight against abuses by the powerful.
As part of Herb Block’s wish to make his work available for the education of the public, the Foundation has made a gift of the entire Herblock archives, including more than 14,000 original cartoons to the Library of Congress. The Herb Block Gallery located in the Jefferson Building rotates ten original Herblock cartoons for viewing every six months.
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