The Cartoon Art Trust Award or CAT Awards are presented in an annual award ceremony hosted by the
Cartoon Art Trust (CAT), owners and operators of the
Cartoon Museum, to honour the year's best cartoonists. The
21st Cartoon Art Trust Awards were held on 12 October 2017 at the
Mall Galleries in London.
History
The
Cartoon Art Trust was formed in 1988 by a group of cartoonists and collectors, including the cartoonist
Mel Calman, whose aim was to found a museum dedicated to "collecting, exhibiting, promoting and preserving the best of British cartoon art". In February 2006 the Cartoon Museum opened to the public at its current home in central London, close to the British Museum.
The museum declares it is "dedicated to preserving the best of British cartoons, caricatures, comics and animation, and to establishing a museum with a gallery, archives and innovative exhibitions to make the creativity of cartoon art past and present, accessible to all for the purposes of education, research and enjoyment."
Annual ceremony
The ceremony takes place annually in October in
London. The
21st CAT Awards
The 21st Cartoon Art Trust Awards, hosted by the Cartoon Art Trust, owners and operators of the Cartoon Museum, were held on 12 October 2017 at the Mall Galleries in London, honouring the best cartoons of 2017. The award ceremony was hosted by ca ...
were held at the
Mall Galleries in London on 12 October 2017. The awards are sponsored by a number of newspapers including ''
The Daily Mail'', ''
Private Eye
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'' and ''
The Daily Telegraph''. Among the cartoonists whose work has been recognised is
Matt Pritchett who has won Best Pocket Cartoonist three times.
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Awards categories
See also
* British Cartoonists' Association
* Cartoon Art Trust
* Cartoon Museum
* Young Cartoonist of the Year Award
The Young Cartoonist of the Year Award is an annual award given by the Cartoon Museum in London in association with the British Cartoonists' Association to the best young cartoonist, in the category of Under 18 and Under 30.
History
The Young Cart ...
References
External links
*
Awards established in 1996
Annual events in the United Kingdom
{{British Comic Book Industry Awards