Finalist: Angie Wang, contributor, The New Yorker
For a vivid illustrated journey with her toddler that explains how human language learning can never be supplanted by AI.
Nominated Work
November 15, 2023
Biography
Angie Wang is a cartoonist and illustrator. She is a James Beard Award winner and a co-founder of the annual comics festival Comic Arts Los Angeles. She currently teaches illustration at USC.
Winners
Prize Winner in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary in 2024:
Medar de la Cruz, contributor, The New Yorker
For his visually-driven story set inside Rikers Island jail using bold black-and-white images that humanize the prisoners and staff through their hunger for books.
Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary in 2024:
Claire Healy, Nicole Dungca and Ren Galeno, contributor, of The Washington Post
For masterful and sensitive use of the comic form to reveal the story of a great injustice to a group of Filipinos exhibited at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, where some of them died.
Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Times Free Press
For a portfolio of deceptively gentle, mostly wordless cartoons full of juxtapositions that ably communicate complex, sophisticated messages.
The Jury
The Jury
Shazna Nessa(Chair)
Independent Journalist, New York City
Kainaz Amaria
National Visual Enterprise Editor, The Washington Post
Kevin Siers*
Freelance Cartoonist, Salisbury, Md.
Michael Sloan*
Illustrator and Cartoonist, New Haven, Conn.
Aki Soga
Executive Editor, Burlington (Vt.) Free Press
Winners in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
Mona Chalabi, contributor, The New York Times
For striking illustrations that combine statistical reporting with keen analysis to help readers understand the immense wealth and economic power of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams and Walt Hickey of Insider, New York, N.Y.
For using graphic reportage and the comics medium to tell a powerful yet intimate story of the Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs, making the issue accessible to a wider public.
2024 Prize Winners
Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker
For a searing indictment of our legal system’s reliance on the felony murder charge and its disparate consequences, often devastating for communities of color.
Staff of Reuters
For an eye-opening series of accountability stories focused on Elon Musk’s automobile and aerospace businesses, stories that displayed remarkable breadth and depth and provoked official probes of his companies’ practices in Europe and the United States.
Hannah Dreier of The New York Times
For a deeply reported series of stories revealing the stunning reach of migrant child labor across the United States—and the corporate and governmental failures that perpetuate it.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, contributor, The Washington Post
For passionate columns written under great personal risk from his prison cell, warning of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and insisting on a democratic future for his country.