New in from our friends at The UK Cartoon Museum are the results of their annual cartoon awards.

• Strip Cartoon Award to Charles Peattie and Mark Warren for Celeb - a  long running feature of Private Eye magazine
• Pocket Award to Neil Bennett - of The Times
• Joke Award to Neil Kerber - of The Daily Mirror's Can't kick, won't Kick
• Caricature to Martin Rowson - of The Daily Mirror and The Guardian
• Political Award to Dave Brown - of The Independent
• Pont Award To Martin Honeysett - of Private Eye
• Heneage Cup Life Achievement Award to Ed McLachlan

Bloghorn offers congratulations to one and all. 

Cartoonists are visual journalists. Please discuss, with reference to Portraits of the Occupation, US investigative cartoonist Sharon Rosenzweig and this fine round up of art from the ongoing global protests at Cartoon Movement.

Drawing ©Sharon Rosenzweig

The Bloghorn is made on behalf of the UK Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation

Publisher Jonathan Cape is celebrating five years of its Graphic Short Story Prize by releasing an e-book compilation of the winners and some of the best also-rans. Forbidden Planet has a sneak peak, and plenty of related links, here.

After the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were firebombed over the publication of a front-cover cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammad, journalist and academic Victor S Navasky asks why cartoons have the ability to make people so angry. See The New York Times for his conclusions.

The New Jersey Hall of Fame has included 19th century political cartoonist Thomas Nast on its list of nominees for possible induction in 2012. Voting is ongoing, but the anti-Irish and anti-Catholic imagery in some of Nast’s drawings has led to a call for his exclusion.

Elsewhere in the US, The Washington Post's Michael Cavna considers the difficulties faced by cartoonists when responding to tragic events. Read his thoughts here.

As it says in the subject line

You'll see the new PCO artist portfolio website is now up and running, and we will be merging the PCO's blog - Bloghorn - here soon!

In the meantime, keep up with all the news from the world of cartooning at the original Bloghorn