AWARD YEAR: 1981
AWARD NAME: Best Cartoon on Foreign Affairs
AWARD RECIPIENT: Don Wright
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Miami News
Visual impact, powerful drawing and clarity of message won Wright the best cartoon award this year. His cartoons, which are published in the Miami News and distributed by The New York Times Syndicate, were also packed into his second book, “Wright Side Up,” in December of 1981. A previous winner of OPC awards, Wright joined The News as a copy boy at 18, applied for an opening as photographer, and became graphics editor before becoming a political cartoonist at 29. Since then he’s risen to the top of his profession. His cartoons are now animated and distributed to television stations across the country by Newsweek Broadcasting.
Citations:
Lazaro Fresquet of El Miami Herald
Mike Peters Dayton Ohio Daily News
Judges: Frank Evers and Harry Devlin.