Best cartoons on foreign affairs
AWARD YEAR: 1998
AWARD NAME: The Thomas Nast Award 1998
RECIPIENT: Kevin Kallaugher
AFFILIATION: The Baltimore Sun
HONORED WORK: Best Cartoons
Kallaugher is able to reduce the world’s absurdities and outrages to a few sharp images. He skewers the disconnect between foreign leaders who see a U.S. searching for global dominion and an insular American public more concerned with finding the TV’s remote control. In Kallaugher’s fertile imagination, Serb leader Slobadan Milosevic becomes an octopus who uses a free tentacle to snatch Kosovo while tangling the U.S. and Europe up in Bosnia with another. In another cartoon, President Clinton, in trying to explain his decision to bomb Iraq, finally adopts the Nike slogan, “Just do it!” Kallaugher takes the ironies of the times far beyond their logical extremes to hilarious effect.
Citations for Excellence:
John Trever
The Albuquerque Journal
Chan Lowe
The Sun-Sentinel, South Florida