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Finalist: The Baltimore Sun, by Kevin Kallaugher

For simple, punchy cartoons with a classic feel lampooning the hypocrisy of not just his subjects but also his readers.

Nominated Work

Winners

Prize Winner in Editorial Cartooning in 2015:

Adam Zyglis

Who used strong images to connect with readers while conveying layers of meaning in a few words. Editorial Cartooning

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Editorial Cartooning in 2015:

Dan Perkins, drawing as Tom Tomorrow

For cartoons that create an alternate universe -- an America frozen in time whose chorus of conventional wisdom is at odds with current reality.

The Jury

Karen Green

research collections and services librarian and adjunct curator of comics

Michael Leary(Chair )

editor and senior vice president

Mark Fiore*

political cartoonist/political animator

Mónica Guzmán

freelance technology and media columnist

Douglas Ray

executive editor

Mike Townsend

executive editor

Winners in Editorial Cartooning

Kevin Siers

For his thought provoking cartoons drawn with a sharp wit and bold artistic style.

Steve Sack

For his diverse collection of cartoons, using an original style and clever ideas to drive home his unmistakable point of view.

Matt Wuerker

For his consistently fresh, funny cartoons, especially memorable for lampooning the partisan conflict that engulfed Washington.

Mike Keefe

For his widely ranging cartoons that employ a loose, expressive style to send strong, witty messages.

2015 Prize Winners

Anthony Doerr

An imaginative and intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology.

Julia Wolfe

A powerful oratorio for chorus and sextet evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life around the turn of the 20th Century.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

A nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police officer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and death.

David I. Kertzer

An engrossing dual biography that uses recently opened Vatican archives to shed light on two men who exercised nearly absolute power over their realms.