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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.

We will let you know if this event will be rescheduled or if we will see you in 2021.

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Michael de Adder discusses winning the Herblock Prize.

An artist from Moncton has won a prestigious American award for excellence in editorial cartooning on Wednesday. 

Cartoonist Michael de Adder is this year's winner of the Herblock Prize, which was created in 2004 to support editorial cartooning "as an essential tool for preserving the rights of the American people through freedom of speech and the right of expression."

"I still don't know what to think," de Adder said Thursday. "I'm kind of blown away."

HALIFAX, N.S. - A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it doesn't hurt if it comes with the occasional cash prize and trophy.

Halifax artist Michael de Adder, whose work appears in The Chronicle Herald and other SaltWire Network publications, the Toronto Star and Ottawa Hill Times, is clearing room on his shelf for the 2020 Herblock Prize, a major U.S. award for editorial cartooning. He is also the first Canadian cartoonist to win the prize.

For Immediate Release

WASHINGTON, DC, Wednesday March 4, 2020 – Michael de Adder is the 2020 Herblock Prize winner for editorial cartooning.

A week ago, Patrick Chappatte wrote on his blog that he was a freshly ousted contract contributor to the New York Times, which as of July 1 would cease running political cartoons in its international edition, thus bringing it “into line” with the domestic newspaper.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper told The Daily Beast that the Times has driven “just one more nail in the coffin of what is a struggling art form,” while cartoonists have called the decision “devastating,” “spineless,” and “chickenshit.”

Janis Goodman and Peter Winant join WETA Around Town host Robert Aubry Davis to discuss the exhibit Art in Action, featuring drawings by Herblock.

In a cheeky 2012 cartoon by Daryl Cagle, a dog lifts its hind leg for the wind-up. "The Times has no credibility — and no cartoonist," a black speech bubble leaks from its mouth, "but it's still good for something."

The New York Times is again making news for how it handles editorial cartoons — or in the latest turn, will not handle editorial cartoons.

The New York Times became the latest newspaper to abandon political cartooning -- just a year after winning a Pulitzer Prize for the discipline for the very first time in its history.

On the eve of World Press Freedom Day, Jake Tapper stood on a Library of Congress stage and delivered an ode to the potency of political cartooning — especially in the face of cutbacks and blowback.

Even as traditional outlets for it shrink, socially conscious art and the desire to make it remain as strong as ever.

In a new exhibition about incendiary art commenting on current affairs, the work of everyone from Herblock to Kerry James Marshall is brought to light