Video- Michael is interviewed by Dave Sussman of Whiskey Politcs during the 2016 Weekly Standard post election cruise
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RAMIREZ joins THE DAILY SIGNAL
RAMIREZ joins THE DAILY SIGNAL
I am excited to announce that starting Friday, I have joined the staff at the DAILY SIGNAL, where I will be doing an editorial cartoon each week.
As stated on their website:
"The Daily Signal delivers investigative and feature reporting and the most important political news and commentary. The team is committed to truth and unmatched in knowledge of Washington’s politics and policy debates. We tell these stories in formats that respect your time and intelligence."
Here is the official announcement:
http://dailysignal.com/2016/08/05/daily-signal-welcomes-pulitzer-winning-editorial-cartoonist-michael-ramirez/
I am proud to be part of the team and I hope you will visit the site often. You will be able to see the cartoons here:
http://dailysignal.com/author/michael-ramirez/
Please bookmark it.
Stay 'tooned for my first Daily Signal cartoon.
Best wishes,
-m
I am excited to announce that starting Friday, I have joined the staff at the DAILY SIGNAL, where I will be doing an editorial cartoon each week.
As stated on their website:
"The Daily Signal delivers investigative and feature reporting and the most important political news and commentary. The team is committed to truth and unmatched in knowledge of Washington’s politics and policy debates. We tell these stories in formats that respect your time and intelligence."
Here is the official announcement:
http://dailysignal.com/2016/08/05/daily-signal-welcomes-pulitzer-winning-editorial-cartoonist-michael-ramirez/
I am proud to be part of the team and I hope you will visit the site often. You will be able to see the cartoons here:
http://dailysignal.com/author/michael-ramirez/
Please bookmark it.
Stay 'tooned for my first Daily Signal cartoon.
Best wishes,
-m
Political Cartoonist Michael Ramirez
Wins Reuben Award, "Oscar" of Industry
By John Beifuss of The Commercial Appeal
Already a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Michael Ramirez, former editorial cartoonist for The Commercial Appeal, this weekend received the cartoon industry's highest honor.
Ramirez, 55, won the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year during the 70th annual "Oscars of cartooning," the awards ceremony of the National Cartoonists Society, the world's oldest, largest and most prestigious organization for professional cartoonists.
The black-tie event took place Saturday night at The Peabody, marking the first time the cartoonists had met in Memphis.
As the 73rd winner of the Reuben Award (a total that acknowledges some ties), Ramirez joins a legendary roster of comic-strip, comic-book and editorial cartoonists that includes Chic Young ("Blondie"), Walt Kelly ("Pogo"), Charles M. Schulz ("Peanuts"), Bill Waterson ("Calvin and Hobbes"), Matt Groenig ("The Simpsons") and Bill Mauldin (beloved for his cartoons depicting GIs during World War II).
Ramirez's win in his former home base was entirely "serendipitous," said Steve McGarry, 63, an artist on the "Despicable Me" and "Minions" movies who is president of the NCS Foundation, the organization's charitable arm, which recently launched a partnership with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. As with the Oscars, society members vote by secret ballot, and the votes are tabulated by an accounting firm.
Other nominees for this year’s Reuben Award included Stephan Patsis (“Pearls Before Swine,” which appears in The Commercial Appeal); Lynda Barry (whose work typically appears in “alternative” newspapers); Mark Tatulli (whose newspaper strips include “Lio” and “Heart of the City”); and Hilary B. Price (creator of the newspaper panel strip “Rhymes with Orange”). The Reuben is named for NCS founding member Rube Goldberg, who also designed the distinctive trophy, which resembles a human pyramid of bulbous-nosed cartoon acrobats.
In addition to the Reuben, awards were given out during the Saturday ceremony for "Newspaper Comic Strip," "Magazine Gag Cartoon," "TV Animation," and so on.
A syndicated editorial cartoonist with Creators Syndicate, the Tokyo-born Ramirez won his first Pulitzer in 1994, in the midst of his seven-year stint with The Commercial Appeal, and his second in 2008, while at Investor's Business Daily.
Although the artist has described himself as "an equal-opportunity offender," Ramirez's cartoons offer a right-of-center viewpoint that makes him one of the most conservative Reuben winners since Al Capp ("Li'l Abner") and Chester Gould ("Dick Tracy"). "I introduce him as 'My friend, Attila the Hun,'" McGarry joked.
"The fact that they actually gave me the award is a reflection on the wonderful nature of this group, how they can think outside the political box," said Ramirez, who lives in Costa de Caza in Orange County, California. "I would guess 70 to 80 percent of them actually disagree with my politics, but they can still respect what I do."
He said editorial cartoonists don’t often win the Reuben, maybe because “we have gag writers who do a lot of our work for us. They’re called ‘politicians,’ and they make our job easy.”
McGarry said about 300 people attended this past weekend's convention. Among those in town were Patsis, Jeff Keane ("The Family Circus"), Patrick McDonnell ("Mutts"), Greg Walker ("Beetle Bailey"), Greg Evans ("Luann"), Sergio Aragones (Mad magazine) and Jean Schulz (widow of Charles Schulz).
For some of the cartoonists, the awards weekend represented a working holiday. Ramirez said he had so many deadlines for cartoons that he kept drawing even when he attended Wednesday’s Journey concert at FedExForum. “I did three sketches between Dave Mason and the Doobie Brothers,” he said.
McGarry said the cartoonists’ visits to St. Jude during the convention were so rewarding that the society has formed “an ongoing national partnership" with the children's hospital. He said the Reuben Awards ceremony may not return to Memphis soon, but some cartoonists probably will return every year, to draw with patients and help raise funds.
For a full list of award winners, visit reuben.org.
Original article HERE
Already a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Michael Ramirez, former editorial cartoonist for The Commercial Appeal, this weekend received the cartoon industry's highest honor.
Ramirez, 55, won the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year during the 70th annual "Oscars of cartooning," the awards ceremony of the National Cartoonists Society, the world's oldest, largest and most prestigious organization for professional cartoonists.
The black-tie event took place Saturday night at The Peabody, marking the first time the cartoonists had met in Memphis.
As the 73rd winner of the Reuben Award (a total that acknowledges some ties), Ramirez joins a legendary roster of comic-strip, comic-book and editorial cartoonists that includes Chic Young ("Blondie"), Walt Kelly ("Pogo"), Charles M. Schulz ("Peanuts"), Bill Waterson ("Calvin and Hobbes"), Matt Groenig ("The Simpsons") and Bill Mauldin (beloved for his cartoons depicting GIs during World War II).
Ramirez's win in his former home base was entirely "serendipitous," said Steve McGarry, 63, an artist on the "Despicable Me" and "Minions" movies who is president of the NCS Foundation, the organization's charitable arm, which recently launched a partnership with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. As with the Oscars, society members vote by secret ballot, and the votes are tabulated by an accounting firm.
Other nominees for this year’s Reuben Award included Stephan Patsis (“Pearls Before Swine,” which appears in The Commercial Appeal); Lynda Barry (whose work typically appears in “alternative” newspapers); Mark Tatulli (whose newspaper strips include “Lio” and “Heart of the City”); and Hilary B. Price (creator of the newspaper panel strip “Rhymes with Orange”). The Reuben is named for NCS founding member Rube Goldberg, who also designed the distinctive trophy, which resembles a human pyramid of bulbous-nosed cartoon acrobats.
In addition to the Reuben, awards were given out during the Saturday ceremony for "Newspaper Comic Strip," "Magazine Gag Cartoon," "TV Animation," and so on.
A syndicated editorial cartoonist with Creators Syndicate, the Tokyo-born Ramirez won his first Pulitzer in 1994, in the midst of his seven-year stint with The Commercial Appeal, and his second in 2008, while at Investor's Business Daily.
Although the artist has described himself as "an equal-opportunity offender," Ramirez's cartoons offer a right-of-center viewpoint that makes him one of the most conservative Reuben winners since Al Capp ("Li'l Abner") and Chester Gould ("Dick Tracy"). "I introduce him as 'My friend, Attila the Hun,'" McGarry joked.
"The fact that they actually gave me the award is a reflection on the wonderful nature of this group, how they can think outside the political box," said Ramirez, who lives in Costa de Caza in Orange County, California. "I would guess 70 to 80 percent of them actually disagree with my politics, but they can still respect what I do."
He said editorial cartoonists don’t often win the Reuben, maybe because “we have gag writers who do a lot of our work for us. They’re called ‘politicians,’ and they make our job easy.”
McGarry said about 300 people attended this past weekend's convention. Among those in town were Patsis, Jeff Keane ("The Family Circus"), Patrick McDonnell ("Mutts"), Greg Walker ("Beetle Bailey"), Greg Evans ("Luann"), Sergio Aragones (Mad magazine) and Jean Schulz (widow of Charles Schulz).
For some of the cartoonists, the awards weekend represented a working holiday. Ramirez said he had so many deadlines for cartoons that he kept drawing even when he attended Wednesday’s Journey concert at FedExForum. “I did three sketches between Dave Mason and the Doobie Brothers,” he said.
McGarry said the cartoonists’ visits to St. Jude during the convention were so rewarding that the society has formed “an ongoing national partnership" with the children's hospital. He said the Reuben Awards ceremony may not return to Memphis soon, but some cartoonists probably will return every year, to draw with patients and help raise funds.
For a full list of award winners, visit reuben.org.
Original article HERE
A Modest Announcement from the staff~
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I feel vain for mentioning this, and I apologize for that in advance, but I suppose you should know that I won the prestigious Reuben Award given out by the National Cartoonists Society on Saturday night at their convention at the beautiful Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Reuben is the equivalent to the Oscar for Best Picture in the cartooning world. It is voted on by the members of, and given out by, the National Cartoonists Society.
I was honored just to have been nominated by such an incredibly talented and exceptional group of people who I admire, love and respect. I am thrilled to have won and I am humbled to have a place among the outstanding and extraordinary cartoonists and legends of cartooning that have won before me.
I am glad to stand in the shadows of the greats.
It is a reflection of an organization that can look beyond the distraction of politics and respect the art of editorial cartooning itself. These are the people who continually contribute generously for great causes, whose imagination entertains the world. They are the most lovely group of people and I thank them all. And I get the luxury of calling them my friends and colleagues.
I did not prepare an acceptance speech because I didn't think I would win. I was up against some outstanding cartoonists, many of whom had been nominated many times before (I actually left the convention early because I didn't want my mother to be alone on Memorial Day). I was pretty happy winning the editorial cartooning division award from time to time.
Editorial cartoonists are like the illegitimate stepchildren of cartooning. Unlike the amazingly talented cartoonists who create brilliant, witty and imaginative worlds from thin air, we, editorial cartoonists have the best gag-writers working for us, politicians. As I've said before, these days, editorial cartooning is more like stenography than anything creative.
I want to acknowledge my brilliant fellow nominees, Lynda Barry, Stephan Pastis, Mark Tatulli and Hilary Price. You are all truly exceptional cartoonists, I'm sorry that you had to lose for me to win. You are all so talented... but I am delighted and honored to win.
The fact that so many who vehemently disagree with me politically, can look beyond our differences and still vote for me, time after time demonstrates how special and truly wonderful these people are. They are extraordinary. I wish you could all meet them.
I love Memphis. It is fitting that I won the Reuben in the city that I love. I won my first Pulitzer in Memphis and it was good to be back in my home away from home. I'm sure I added a few layers of plaque to my arteries but having Rendezvous ribs are so worth it.
Thank you to all of you who have sent congratulations. Although I do not draw editorial cartoons to get awards, it is a thrill to win them, especially when it is from your heroes.
I am blessed to do something I love, that gives me purpose and that hopefully impacts the world we live in, and I thank God for his inspiration and his many blessings, my family for their love and encouragement, and for you, my friends, for your friendship and support.
Now, let's party!
Congratulations to the Silver Reuben Award winners:
Magazine Feature / Magazine Illustration
Anton Emdin
Newspaper Illustration
Anton Emdin
Greeting Card
Jim Benton
TV Animation
Drew Hodges, Creator, Director, Executive Producer (Tumble Leaf)
Feature Animation
Steve Martino, Director (The Peanuts Movie)
Advertising / Product Illustration
Anton Emdin
Book Illustration
Sydney Smith (Sidewalk Flowers)
Magazine Gag Cartoon
David Sipress
Graphic Novel
Ethan Young (Nanjing: The Burning City)
Comic Book
Ben Caldwell (Prez)
Online Comics – Short Form
Dave Kellett (Sheldon)
Online Comics – Long Form
Drew Weing (The Creepy Casefiles of Margo Maloo)
Newspaper Panel Cartoon
Dan Piraro (Bizarro)
Editorial Cartoon
Ann Telnaes
Newspaper Comic Strip
Terri Libenson (The Pajama Diaries)
The Reuben Award
Michael Ramirez
Best wishes,
-m