André Carrilho wins World Press Cartoon Grand Prix 2026

O portuguese artist André Carrilho won, on Thursday, the World Press Cartoon Grand Prix 2026 with an editorial designed on Gaza, and two other ‘cartoon’ awards editorial and caricature, was announced today.

According to the organization, André Carrilho’s “iconic design” on Gaza made the cover of the Public and the supplement P2 of this newspaper on October 5, 2025 and also won the first prize in the category of Editorial Cartoon.

Carrilho was also awarded third in the Caricature category with a drawing by British politician Nigel Farage, published in The New Statesman magazine.

The award announcement and delivery ceremony took place in Oeiras, Lisbon district, prior to the opening of the 19th edition of the World Press Cartoon exhibition, which will be shown at the Anjos Palace in that municipality.

André Carrilho wins the Grand Prix – worth 10,000 euros – with the work “Gaza, for the History of Horror”, done for a special work of the Public newspaper that marked in 2025 two years of Israel’s war in Gaza.

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The image shows a child supported by a crutch, with an arm and leg amputated and dressed in a white blood-stained sweater. The child is on a pedestal, surrounded by ancient statues, equally with broken members, all to be targeted and photographed, by people in backlight, as if displayed in a museum.

In a statement, the World Press Cartoon organization underlines a “work of strong humanitarian and social criticism” by André Carrilho, who again receives the Grand Prix, already won in 2015, with an editorial design on the Ebola virus.

In previous editions, André Carrilho won the second Caricatura prize in 2021 and 2006, the third prize in this category in 2005 and four honorable mentions in 2008, 2011, 2020 and 2022.

About the remaining winners of this 19th edition of the World Press Cartoon, in the category of Editorial Cartoon were also distinguished Tchavdar (Bulgaria) and Nardi (Italy).

In the category and Caricatura were awarded J. Aldeguer (Spain) and Frank Hoppmann (Germany). In Humor Design, the awards were awarded to Toshow (Servia), Rainer Ehrt (Germany) and Goran Divac (Servia).

“ Even in the face of political pressures and ethical challenges brought by new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, cartoonists continue to be the guardians of free and nibble criticism,” said the cartoonist and director of World Press Cartoon, António Antunes, in a statement.

The exhibition, with more than 200 works of humor in the press, by 138 authors from around the world, opens to the public on Saturday at the Angels Palace and is patent until January 23, 2027.

André Carrilho, born in Amadora in 1974, is one of the best known and award-winning Portuguese designers, in illustration, cartoon, caricature and also in animated cinema.

He has regularly published in newspapers and magazines, such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Magazine, New Statesman, as well as in the National Daily News, Public and Express.

Among the long list of distinctions are the Illustration Gold Award of the Society for News Design of the United States in 2002, the Stuart Prize for Press Drawing in 2011 and the National Illustration Award in 2021.

He co-founded and produced the animated cartoon series Spam Cartoon, with Cristina Sampaio and Tiago Albuquerque.