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Michael Cavna
Washington, D.C.
Covering visual culture and storytelling: comedy/satire, graphic and comic art/illustration and animation.
Education: University of California, San Diego, Literature/Writing
Writer-artist-recovering-syndicated-cartoonist
Michael Cavna is a man of many hyphenates. His articles on visual
artists and comic art/illustration have been honored by the Sigma Delta
Chi Awards, the National Headliner Awards and the international Harvey
Awards.
Cavna is creator of The Post's Comic Riffs online column, which has
twice been named the best newspaper blog in the country by the Society
for Features Journalism.
A San Francisco native and University of California at San Diego
graduate, Cavna wrote the main text for the Eisner Award-nominated
anthology book "Team Cul de Sac: Cartoonists Draw the Line at
Parkinson's."
Cavna's "Wise Up" cartoon launched the viral #Draw4Atena campaign in
2015 on behalf of jailed Iranian artist Atena Farghadani. He is also
emcee and co-programmer of the Library of Congress/National Book
Festival's Graphic Novel Pavilion.
"Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz once told Cavna at a black-tie
awards dinner: "You do funny things"; to this day, he does not know for
sure whether Schulz was referring to Cavna's syndicated comic "Warped"
(Andrews McMeel) or to his tragically askew cummerbund.
Honors and Awards: National
Headliner Award, writing/illustration, 2017, 2019 & 2021 ; Ink
Bottle Award, Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, 2023;
Eisner Award finalist, journalism, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2021; Society
of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi Award, audio/visual
storytelling, 2018; Society for Features Journalism awards, Arts/feature
coverage and commentary, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2021;
Harvey Awards finalist, biography/journalism, 2012
Professional Affiliations: Society for Features Journalism, National Society of Newspaper Columnists
Books by Michael Cavna:
"Team Cul de Sac: Cartoonists Draw the Line at Parkinson's" (text)
David Betancourt
Washington, D.C.
Reporter focusing on comic book culture
Education: Radford University, BA in media studies
David Betancourt writes about all aspects of comic book culture for The Washington Post's Comic Riffs blog.
Honors and Awards: Two-time Eisner Award nominee
Languages spoken in addition to English: Spanish
