Sonntag cartoonist wins international prize
The Swiss cartoonist Silvan Wegmann "Swen" has won second prize in the Ranan Lurie Award competition organized by the United Nations Correspondents Association, which is endowed with 5000 US dollars. The prize, which is awarded worldwide, honors political and time-critical cartoons.
Two works that were published in a newspaper in the current year had to be submitted. The two winning cartoons by "Swen" show Barack Obama walking on water as the "Messiah" and his predecessor George W. Bush, after whose departure from the White House it is taken over by cleaning teams. Both drawings first appeared in the "Sonntag" newspaper published by Aargauer AZ Medien. The first prize went to Robert Ariail for "The State" and the third prize went to Shlomo Cohen for "Israel Haymo". The prize is named after the American cartoonist Ranan Lurie, who was born in 1932 and is the publisher of "Cartoon News Magazine".
