Created in 2019 by the European Press Prize and Studio Europa Maastricht following the New York Occasions announcement that they might cease publishing press cartoons, the European Cartoon Award is designed to reward “braveness and high quality within the subject of cartooning and foster dialog on the subject of Europe”. These are two goals which are on the coronary heart of Voxeurop’s mission.
This 12 months, as soon as once more, I had the honour of being a member and the chair of the jury, and main the debates. Choice is without doubt one of the most enjoyable duties, but in addition one of the vital arduous, particularly when the 2024 harvest was so wealthy, diverse, and shocking. All of us needed to struggle exhausting to defend our favourites… and attain settlement on the finalists. All through the summer season, behind closed doorways, we met with Ben Jennings, winner of the 2023 ECA; Iranian cartoonist Sanaz Bagheri; Dutch cartoonist Jip van den Toorn; and Dutch thinker Stine Jensen. These choice periods had been a chance to debate the main occasions of the previous 12 months and their distinctive journalistic therapy by way of the eyes of press cartoonists.
Of the 475 press cartoons from 24 nations that I evaluated with my 4 co-judges, three had been shortlisted: Tjeerd Royaards (Netherlands), Steven Lectrr Degryse (Belgium) and Victor SolÃs (Mexico), who we current right here.
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The winner will probably be introduced on the second ECA Cartoons Day in The Hague on Thursday 17 October. The awards ceremony will happen within the Central Library, and all it’s important to do to attend is register. The ceremony will probably be preceded by two discussions: on the phenomenon of polarisation, and the way press cartoons are chosen by editors-in-chief. These discussions will probably be moderated by yours actually and Gian-Paolo Accardo respectively. See you there!
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