ARIAIL Cartoon
May 5, 2014
About Robert Ariail
Robert Ariail has won numerous awards for his work, mostrecently the Ranan Lurie United Nations Political Cartoon Award inDecember 2009. Ariail became the first American to win first prize inthe award’s 10-year history.
Ariail is also a recipient of the Overseas Press Club ofAmerica’s 1997 Thomas Nast Award for cartoons on foreign affairs. He was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade Awardin 2002, 1997 and 1991, and was a runner up each year from 1992-1995. He also won the 1992 National Society of Professional Journalists Awardand the 1990 National Headliner Award, and was a runner up for the 1999Overseas Press Club Award. Ariail was a finalist for Pulitzer Prize in1995 and 2000.
In 1993, he was awarded the Ambrose G. Hampton Award foroutstanding performance, an honor bestowed annually to employees of TheState (Columbia, SC), where Ariail was the staff cartoonist for 25years. Ariail has produced two best-selling collections of his work,Ariail View (1990) and Ariail Attack (1992). His most recent cartooncollection, riail!!!: More Cartoons by Robert Ariail, was published byThe State in 2001.
