Someday, if someone is willing to pay for them, there will be a wide field out there. Even those created by professional cartoonists fall woefully short. Mark is a one-man genre no one else delivers animated editorial cartoons of such high quality on a weekly basis. I’ve been doing animated editorial cartoons for about a year now, and thus watching the field with much interest. Now he is an animator, and the Pulitzer Prize committee should be shot for giving this important award to an artform that isn’t anything like an editorial cartoon. I hear Mark was a cartoonist at one point, and maybe a darn good one. Gosh, do you think the Academy Awards will now add a category called Editorial Cartoons, since they have one for Animation? Did they even add the Animation category willingly? NO! But they did, they had to, because animation is a MOVIE. I think the judges, as well as some people here, are confused because the English word for cartoon means both 2 dimensional cartoons and also animation movies, which includes hundreds or thousands more frames, flash, sound or voices or music, much much more dialog, and is called multimedia for a reason. Does anyone have a different source than the entry form? I don’t equate animation with online – everything is online, so what? I did read the lengthy rules to submit for this year – I think it was 3 pages long plus $50 – and there is no mention of animation in there. Mark certainly did a very good job on his African American dialect voice for Obama – he could get a job as a voiceover. Tom, thanks for info on how animation is done. Not to mention the $50 they charge each contestant. The Pulitzer people have an obligation to state upfront what the criteria will be, as the law is clear on contests when money is involved. This is EXACTLY the same as a photo in the cartoon category, or mixing up any other genre. Wiki says: Entries must also fit in at least one of the specific prize categories, and cannot simply gain entrance on the grounds of having general literary or compositional properties. It is totally inexcusable that a major print award was given to a movie. It takes a team, and Hollywood would scream if they awarded a Production Designer Oscar to the Director or Writer. Like Disney requires an entire building to do this. Can someone who has actually done animation answer this: how many people does it take to do one? Does one pick the music, record it, do the voices, operate the software, all oneself? How about all the additional dialogue, or is that just cribbed from the news? I don’t know.
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