Best cartoons on foreign affairs
AWARD YEAR: 1999
AWARD NAME: The Thomas Nast Award 1999
RECIPIENT: Rob Rogers
AFFILIATION: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
With piercing wit and a powerful sense of the absurd, Rob Rogers gives readers a fresh perspective on world news. Never ponderous or didactic, Rogers finds hilarious incongruities in even the most serious foreign events: for example, the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade and the devastation in Chechnya portrayed in a game show hosted by Boris Yeltsin. He also offers a wry take on the mixed blessings of globalization. In “The Great Mall,” the Chinese wonder of the world has been transformed into a giant shopping opportunity, while Seattle’s anti-WTO demonstrators are shocked to discover that their protest T-shirts are made in Indonesia. This enormously talented cartoonist offers a host of surprises.
Citations for Excellence:
Mike Peters
The Dayton Daily News
Robert Ariail
The State