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CLAY BENNETT WINS POPULATION CARTOON CONTEST
You gotta hand it to Clay
Bennett, he is the cartoon contest king! Here is a press
release from the Populations Media Center followed by winning
cartoons by Clay Bennett, Jeff
Parker and Eric Lewis.
Shelburne, VT -- Clay Bennett, a 2002 Pulitzer Prize winning
editorial cartoonist for the Christian Science Monitor, won the
2004 National Population Cartoon Contest. Mr. Bennet's cartoon,
"Be Fruitful and Multiply Now Divide," triumphed over
187 other cartoons to win the $7,000 grand prize as well as an
all-expense paid trip to New York City. He received his award
on October 5, 2004 at the Yale Club of New York City.
Run by the non-profit organization, Population
Media Center (PMC), the contest called for cartoonists to
publish cartoons depicting the relationship between overpopulation
and its effects on the quality of life. Through this annual contest,
PMC hopes to raise awareness of the American public of the importance
of these issues.
"In recent years, global population issues have almost disappeared
from the news and information programming in the United States,"
states Bill Ryerson, president of PMC. "This lack of concern
with population and reproductive health issues has allowed policy
makers to politicize and reduce funding for family planning information
and services in developing countries without serious backlash.
Cartoons are a simple and extremely effective way of promoting
these important issues many people often look at cartoons
before reading serious articles in newspapers and magazines."
Mr. Bennett likened the work of Population Media Center to the
job of editorial cartoonists. "PMC is using the media to
promote progressive ideals That's a strategy and objective that
we editorial cartoonists share. I know I've been trying to do
just that since I got started in this business 24 years ago."
Mr. Ryerson praised all of the cartoonists' enthusiasm in entering
the contest. "It is wonderful that these professional cartoonists
people who are extremely busy would take the time
to help disadvantaged people in the world."
The distinguished judging panel consisted of Ed Koren, a long-time
cartoonist for the New Yorker; Richard Lamm, former three-term
governor of Colorado and current professor and co-director of
the Institute of Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver;
Robert Roy Metz, retired chairman of United Media Syndicates;
Allie Stickney, Vice President for International Programs at
Planned Parenthood Federation of America; Signe Wilkinson, cartoonist
for the Philadelphia Daily News; and Robert Wyman, professor
of Biology, who teaches "Global Problems of Population Growth"
at Yale University.
Cartoonists Jeff
Parker and Eric Lewis won second and third places, respectively.
Mr. Parker draws for the publication Florida Today and is also
syndicated through the website caglecartoons.com.
Mr. Lewis draws for the New Yorker.
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