Afghan Notebook Cartoons Take First Place in AAN Awards

I just received word that my cartoon blog from Afghanistan took First Prize at this year’s Association of Alternative Newsweekly Awards. This is my first-ever AAN Award, and I did begin my career in alt weeklies, so this is a bit of a thrill.

The only alt weekly that ran them wasBoston’s Weekly Dig. No other alt weekly paper was interested, so yay Dig and thanks to my editor, the brilliant cartoonist Tak Toyoshima.

The only other recognition I received for filing uncensored unembedded cartoons from the war in Afghanistan was a runner-up placement in the Scripps-Howard Journalism Award.

I am currently working on a book based on my experience for Hill & Wang, a division of Farrar Straus & Giroux.