For the second year in a row, reported
Editor & Publisher,
Chicago
Defender editorial cartoonist
Tim
Jackson received the Wilbert L. Holloway Award for Best Editorial Cartoon
from the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), also known as the
Black Press of America. A
Dayton,
Ohio, native, Jackson began
drawing cartoons dealing with social issues when he was still in high school. A
1985 graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he joined the
staff of the
Defender in 1999 as a
layout artist and began drawing cartoons on local issues for the paper the
following year. In addition to his work at the
Defender, Jackson draws weekly
cartoons for a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Madison (
Wis.)
Times;
Capital Outlook in
Tallahassee,
Fla.; the
Cincinnati
Herald and
Dayton Defender in
Ohio;
Northern
Kentucky Herald; and the magazine
Urban
Life Northwest, based in
Seattle.
From 2006 to 2008,
Jackson's cartoons appeared
in the Sunday
Chicago
Tribune's Perspectives section.
Jackson
is currently working on a book of African-American newspaper cartoonists of the
early 1900s, due for publication sometime next year. You can get an idea of the
content by visiting
his website and clicking on “Pioneering Cartoonists of Color.”
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