The European Cartoon Award (ECA) has announced the 3 finalists of the 2024 edition of the contest. Their names are Tjeerd Royaards (The Netherlands), Steven Lectrr Degryse (Belgium) and Victor Solís (Mexico).

The three finalists were selected among the hundreds of entries received by the European Cartoon Award, from 24 countries.

The decision was made by the panel of judges, composed of five experts in the world of political cartoons and journalism: the winner of the European Cartoon Award 2023 Ben Jennings from the UK, French journalist Catherine André (Chair), Dutch cartoonist Jip van den Toorn, Iranian cartoonist Sanaz Bagheri, and Dutch philosopher Stine Jensen.

The Winner of the ECA 2024 – whose prize is worth 10,000 euros – will be announced during the second edition of the ECA ‘Cartoons Day’, on October 17 at the Central Library in The Hague.

For more information on the event, and to register for it, click here.

Here are the three finalist cartoons:

As a follow-up to our Western Balkans Media Freedom Cartoon Competition, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Albania invited us to host a workshop for young Albanian artists in Tirana, as a part of Dutch Culture Week.

Dutch cartoonist and CM editor explained how cartoons are a powerful tool to to hold those in power accountable, to expose injustice and corruption, and to point out what is wrong with society, using international and historical examples of cartoons.

Here an impression of the event and some of the cartoons that were created by the workshop participants.

Video report by Balkanweb

On September 10, CM editor and award-winning cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards will give a workshop on political cartoons in Tirana, Albania. In this workshop about the power of political cartoons, Tjeerd will show why visual satire is such a powerful way to hold those in power accountable, to expose injustice and corruption and to point out what is wrong in society. So powerful that around the world, cartoonists are still put in jail by dictators that fear the power of the pencil. More details and registration here.

Cartoon by Victor Bogorad

Our August newsletter is out! Although we’ve been away for most of August, we do have a lot of upcoming events in September and beyond to tell you about. Read our newsletter here.

On April 18, cartoonists Emanuele Del Rosso and Tjeerd Royaards gave a workshop on editorial cartoons at the International Journalism Festival. If you've missed it, you can watch it here.

Join our workshop about editorial cartoons at the International Journalism Festival on Thursday at 11am CET, either in person in Perugia or online, draw a cartoon and win one of the buttons to wear as a badge of pride! We'll send 10 buttons out to the best online participants. Just mail your cartoon to cartoons@cartoonmovement after the workshop to be considered.

A day late (we usually send our newsletter out on Monday) because of Easter, but our monthly update from the world of political cartooning is out. Read it here to discover our latest news and last month's most popular cartoons. If you haven't subscribed yet, you can do so here.

And remember, we also send out a newsletter every weekday with our daily cartoon, t0 which you can subscribe here.

On April 4 and 5, there will be a symposium titled Humor and Conflict in the Public Sphere at the KU Leuven. Belgian cartoonist Lectrr will give a lecture and CM editor Tjeerd Royaards will join a panel discussion about political satire. Check out the full program here.

Next month we'll be at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia! Whether you are there or not, you can join our workshop The power of editorial cartoons (in person or via live-stream) on Thursday April 18 at 11am CET.

We are also hosting a side event we have named The Cartoonists Table. If you are in Perugia, come hang out with Tjeerd Royaards and Emanuele Del Rosso as they raw live every day between 4 and 6pm at the bar of Hotel Brufani.

We are very happy we'll be present at the International Journalism Festival 2024 in April in Perugia (Italy). For the second year in a row, CM editors Tjeerd Royaards and Emanuele Del Rosso will host a workshop on editorial cartoons. You can be there in person (the festival is free), but the workshop will also be livestreamed. More details will follow, but here's a look at what we did last year.