Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC, Wednesday, March 20, 2024 – Steve Brodner has been named the winner of the 2024 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Steve Brodner has been a leading satiric artist for the last 40 years. His goal during this time was to find an outlet for various forms of political and social commentary in the world of independent, freelance art.

WASHINGTON, DC, Wednesday, March 8, 2023 – Ann Telnaes has been named the winner of the 2023 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.

Washington D.C., April 28, 2022 -- All Things Considered weekend host Michel Martin delivered the prestigious lecture at The Herblock Prize awards ceremony held at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., on April 26. This year's winner was Lalo Alcaraz, a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist and the creator of the syndicated daily comic strip, "La Cucaracha," published nationwide since 2002.

WASHINGTON, DC, Thursday March 3, 2022 – Lalo Alcaraz is the 2022 Herblock Prize winner for editorial cartooning.

WASHINGTON, DC, Thursday, March 11, 2021 – Rob Rogers has been named the winner of the 2021 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.

Monday, March 16th - Update - 

The Herblock Prize & Lecture event at the Library of Congress on April 6, 2020 has been cancelled.

Due to the closing of the Library of Congress and concerns over coronavirus The Herb Block Foundation decided that it is in everyone's best interest to cancel the event.

WASHINGTON, DC, Thursday, March 07, 2019 – Matt Davies is the 2019 Herblock Prize winner for editorial cartooning. He is the first recipient to receive the award a second time.

WASHINGTON, DC, Monday, March 05, 2018 – Ward Sutton has been named the winner of the 2018 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.

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.

WASHINGTON, DC, Wednesday, February 23th, 2017 – Ruben Bolling, pen name for Ken Fisher, has been named the winner of the 2017 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.

Ruben Bolling is the author of the weekly comic strip “Tom the Dancing Bug,” distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication to many newspapers across North America.  It also appears on:  BoingBoing.net, one of the most linked-to websites in the world; DailyKos.com, the U.S.’s largest progressive blog; and Gocomics.com, the largest comic strip website.