The Judges
The AAEC and the Locher Award would like to thank this year's panel of judges.
Sage Stossel is an editor and cartoonist for The Atlantic.com and a regular contributor of cartoons to The Boston Globe and The Provincetown Banner, for which she received a New England Press Association Award. She grew up in a suburb of Boston and attended Harvard University, where she majored in English and American Literature and Languages and did a weekly cartoon strip about college life, called "Jody," for the Harvard Crimson. Her cartoons have been featured by The New York Times Week in Review, The Washington Post, CNN Headline News, Cartoon Arts International/The New York Times Syndicate, The Boston Globe, Editorial Humor, Copyediting, and elsewhere. Her work is also included in Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year and Attack of the Political Cartoonists. She is author/illustrator of the comic Starling, now serialized on GoComics.com, and of the children's books On the Loose in Boston (2009), On the Loose in Washington, DC (2013), and On the Loose in Philadelphia (2015).
Rob Clough has been writing comics criticism for fifteen years, in places like Studygroup Magazine, Savant, The Comics Journal, Cicada, Sequart, Foxing Quarterly, Sequential Magazine and the Poopsheet Foundation. Rob's home base for a decade has been his site, High-Low. Rob has been providing criticism about comics from across the alternative/indy spectrum, including shedding light on new artists, short-run minicomics, YA comics, and of course the major releases from Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly, and others.
Nate Beeler is the editorial cartoonist for The Columbus Dispatch. Prior to joining the Dispatch, he was the cartoonist for The Washington Examiner from 2005 to 2012. His award-winning cartoons have appeared on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC, and in such publications as Time, Newsweek, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Beeler is one of the most widely syndicated editorial cartoonists, with his cartoons distributed internationally to more than 800 publications by Cagle Cartoons.
In 2014, Beeler won the Fischetti Award from Columbia College Chicago. Beeler was awarded the 2010 Thomas Nast Award from the Overseas Press Club of America and the 2008 Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award from The National Press Foundation. He has also received multiple honors from the Virginia, Maryland and D.C. press associations for his cartoons. In 2007, he won the Golden Spike Award at the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists' 50th anniversary convention in Washington.
Beeler's cartooning career began at his high school's student newspaper in Columbus, Ohio. He went on to earn a journalism degree at American University in 2002. Beeler won the three major college cartooning awards: the Charles M. Schulz Award, the John Locher Award and first place in the SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards. Nate Beeler is a member of the John Locher Memorial Award Advisory Board.
