I found out last Monday that the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) had given me this year’s Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning. My wife, a graduate of USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, had heard of both the society and the award before and reacted with some measure of glee at the news. I, on the other hand, having had no knowledge of the society or the award, wondered if, given the name of the prize, I was being honored by some Asian frat house that found my sacrilegious disdain for God and Country so in line with their own Caligulian philosophy that they needed to publicly recognize me. Anyway, there it is and I thank Truthdig for submitting my work for consideration. The award ceremony is happening in October, in Las Vegas, and I’m toying with the idea of sending Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse the award in protest of how little work the entertainment industry is giving to wisecracking midgets and hick southerners and wily Chinese and lazy Mexicans and dumb, big-breasted blondes and drunk Indians and shiftless black people and mincing fags nowadays. It’s an abomination, this dumbing up of our otherwise oh-so-entertainingly moronic American culture.
(Speaking of Sacheen Littlefeather, I always thought it was funny how Marlon Brando sent her to refuse his 1973 Oscar for The Godfather on the grounds that Hollywood was misrepresenting our Native American brothers and sisters and portraying them as primitive and obedient and, when not savagely uncouth, as servile dimwits. I’ve always wondered if, after committing the outrageously servile act of doing something for Brando that he didn’t want to do himself, she also picked up his dry cleaning on her way back to his mansion.)
I’ve been remiss in regards to reading your blog, my friend. CONGRATULATIONS! I’ll raise a glass in your honor… or maybe I’ll just go to yogurtland instead!
Miss you!
A big round of applause for Mr. Fish !!
(And good luck getting us some work)
Congratulations. You deserve recognition.
There has been a word coined now for the manufacturing of ignorance….agnotology. All along I have seen this and just though it was a standard marketing strategy. Morals and ethics are for wimps.
I hear the Sig Delt Chi hazing rituals are really crazee. Good luck if you go to receive your reward! If so, we all expect fabulous drawings of your ceremonial humiliation. Congrats, Fish!!
No surprise. I was just telling a friend yesterday, who was concerned about how one of her kids was very artistic but not as into school work as his older brother. “Don’t worry. The same thing happened in our family and my little brother turned out smarted than me.”
In the words of my people, mazel tov!
Well deserved and, in a time when there’s too little indication of sanity out there, perhaps, a sign of hope for us all.
Woo-hoo! You Rock, Mr. Fish.
Congratulations. Maybe ask Marlon Brando to pick up your award for you?
dr corky says congratulations and it was all those sex-ay obama drawings that put you over the top
CONGRATULATIONS MR. FISH !!
WELL-DESERVED FOR ALL YOUR GREAT ICONIC ART !!
Congrats!