Matt Davies of Newsday and runner-up Clay Jones were saluted at the annual ceremony, which celebrates editorial cartooning.
Newsday's Matt Davies, left, and CNN's Jake Tapper speak at the Herblock Prize ceremony Thursday at the Library of Congress. On the screen is Herblock's award-winning 1942 cartoon,"British Plane." By Michael Cavna Michael Cavna Writer/artist for Comic Riffs, covering visual storytelling, cartoon art/illustration, comedy/satire and animation.
In his lecture, Tapper cited how Herblock — the legendary Washington Post cartoonist who coined “McCarthyism” and memorably skewered Watergate — once went unpublished in The Post. It was the 1952 presidential election, and the newspaper had endorsed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, while Herblock, an Adlai Stevenson supporter, had editorially gone hard after Ike. So the Herblock spot in The Post went dark for a few days — until the paper changed course after receiving criticism.
But, Tapper said, one group President Trump does not attack today — in contrast to Nixon — is that of political cartoonists.A 2018 cartoon from Matt Davies's Herblock Prize-winning portfolio. The anchor, who draws “State of the Cartoon” animations for his own CNN show, ticked off a handful of times that cartoonists have been courageous or undercut.
A crucial lesson in all this, Tapper said, was for civilians to maintain the same sense of engaged outrage that top political cartoonists unfailingly do — including, he said, Davies, Jones and Politico’s Matt Wuerker, who introduced Tapper on Thursday.
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