"James Aronson was always a journalist ahead of his time. He was a media critic before there were journalism reviews. He was a defender of the rights of newspaper people before there were reporters' committees. He was providing an alternative before there was an alternative press."

The annual Grambs Aronson Award for Cartooning with a Conscience honors satiric graphic art that shows distinction in some combination of the following features:
creative mastery of traditional artistic technique, coherent, compassionate, consistent social vision, inventive comic narrative, innovation in forms or media of cartooning. ...more