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LFS Submits Cartoonist Warren for Pulitzer Prize Nomination

February 2, 2010 Press No Comments

February 2nd, 2010, Fairfax VA – Liberty Features Syndicate today announced that it has submitted award-winning cartoonist William Warren for a Pulitzer Prize nomination in the Editorial Cartooning category.

According to the Pulitzer committee, the judgment will be based on “originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing, and pictorial effect.” The total prize money for 2010 will be $10,000, which Warren has already announced will be donated to the Good Samaritan Health Center in Atlanta, Georgia, should he win.

The award has been given out since 1922 to the nation’s top in editorial cartoonist. Last year’s winner, Stephen Breen, is the editorial cartoonist for the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Like Breen, William Warren has won the Scripps Howard Charles M. Schultz Award, which is the top honor for collegiate cartoonists. And like Breen, Warren has also won the John Locher Memorial Cartoon contest considered by many to be the most prestigious contest for college editorial cartoonists in North America.
Both of Warren’s awards came while he was in college at Wake Forest University, from which he graduated in 2008.

Warren, who has been with Liberty Features Syndicate since its founding, has been featured in hundreds of newspapers across the country. He is regularity featured in the Washington Examiner’s Sunday “Critical Eye” and has been featured in “Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year” two years in arow.

Justin Williams, Director of Editorial Outreach, stated that “It has been a blessing to have such a talented cartoonist apart of Liberty Features Syndicate. William personifies the creative instinct and professional acumen for which the Pulitzer Prize was established.

The Pulitzer Prize will be awarded at the foundations annual luncheon in late May.

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LFS Cartoonist Warren featured in “Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year” 2010 Edition

January 28, 2010 Press No Comments

January 28th, 2010, Fairfax VA – Liberty Features Syndicate today announced that LFS award-winning cartoonist William Warren was featured three times in the 2010 Edition of the “Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year Book.”

Edited by Charles Brooks, former president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, the book also includes well-known cartoonists such as Michael Ramirez, Steven Breen, and Mike Luckovich.

The “Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year” book, according to the books description, feature cartoonists’ “sharp pens and incisive commentary” that “direct their pictorial barbs at the year’s major newsmakers in politics, business, and entertainment.”

Responding to the selection Warren, a graduate of Wake Forest University and winner of the Charles M. Schulz Award, stated that, “It is a truly an honor to have three cartoons featured along side the best of the best in political cartooning. Political cartoon have always held an honored place in our national dialogue. And I’m pleased to be part of it.”

This is the second year in a row Warren has been featured in the book.

The cartoons featured were on a wide range of topics and titled were “Give it A Rest,” “Slipping Fast,” and “I’ve Made Arrangements” (see enclosed).

“Liberty Features Syndicate would like to congratulate William Warren and thank all of the newspapers nationwide that continue to syndicate his cartoons,” said Justin Williams, Editorial Outreach Director of Liberty Features Syndicate.

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Cartoon - Slipping Fast (500)Cartoon - Give it a Rest (500)Cartoon - I've Made Arrangements (500)

Liberty Features Syndicate

LFS provides quality content and materials to newspapers, magazines and other print publications. We feature the award-winning cartoons of William Warren and the columns/op-eds from the diverse LFS Writers Group. LFS is located in Fairfax, VA, right outside of our Nation's Capital, Washington D.C. For more information feel free to email adam@netrightdaily.com