The prize for the cartoon of the year 2018 goes to the Liberté cartoonist Alex
The Nebelspalter Audience Award for Cartoon of the Year goes to Alex (Alexandre Ballaman) for his cartoon «L’affaire du mime de l’aigle bicéphale au Mondial,‘ which appeared in June 2018 in the Fribourg daily newspaper La Liberté.
Over 200 caricatures by 48 Swiss press cartoonists were available for visitors to choose from at the annual review exhibition "Gezeichnet 2018" at the Museum of Communication in Bern.
Visitors voted the article "Permanent change at the SVP" by cartoonist Carlo Schneider, published in the April issue of the Nebelspalter. Third place went to a piece on the WEF Davos by Gérald Herrmann, published in the Tribune de Genève at the end of January 2018.
The winner received 3.4 percent of the votes cast, followed by 3.3 percent for the runner-up and 3.0 percent for third place. Past winners include Patrick Chappatte, Felix Schaad, Silvan Wegmann (Swen) and Marco Ratschiller (Karma).
The "Drawn" exhibition was launched in 2008 and this year's edition was held at the Museum of Communication in Bern from December 14, 2018 to February 10, 2019. The 2018 edition of "Drawn" received a great deal of national media coverage and set a new audience record with over 14,000 visitors. The twelfth edition of "Gezeichnet" will take place again at the Museum of Communication in December 2019.
