From the daily cartoonist.
| From left to right: Tim Dolighan, Clay Jones, Scott Johnston, John Auchter, Pierre Skilling, Wes Tyrell, Jeff McIntyre, Guy Badeaux, Scott Burns, Inna Sokolova, Nancy Beiman, Graeme Mackay, Michael de Adder and Frank Mariani. (Not pictured: Terry Mosher, Sue Dewar, Theo Moudakis and Christian Vachon) |
Last weekend, the Association of Canadian Cartoonists (ACC) gathered on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls for its 2026 convention, described as a “pop-up mini-congress.” The two Townsend Awards (The Townsies), one for the best Francophone cartoon and the other for the best Anglophone cartoon, were awarded respectively to Guy Badeaux (Not yet) and New Zealand Rod Emmerson.
Despite the meeting’s short notice, some Americans made the trip north.
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| Clay Jones, John Auchter, Scott Burns and Frank Mariani |
Clay Jones traveled there to present Graeme MacKay The Rex Babin Award was honored at the recent Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention in Sacramento.
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| Clay Jones received an honorary Canuck award. |