Who’s Emanuele?

Emanuele Del Rosso is an editorial cartoonist and communication specialist.

He studied modern and contemporary Italian and world literature in Milan and Trento, before graduating in Journalism at the University of Groningen.

At the moment he is Communications Coordinator with Display Europe, and Deputy Director of the European Cartoon Award.

As a cartoonist

Ema publishes his illustrations in several online magazines and newspapers around the world. Among them: The Washington Post, The Japan Times, Le Monde, Courrier International, Alternative Economiques, the Swiss daily Le Temps, the Dutch Het Financieele Dagblad, NRC, Trouw, the environmental magazine Renewable Matters, France24 TV, The Nation. He also has a weekly slot in the Italian daily IlT.

Since 2016, he has been a member of Cartoon Movement, one of the most important publishing platforms for high-quality political cartoons and comics journalism – for which he also works as a freelance social media manager.

“𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺.”

In September 2018 he won the second prize in the political cartoons contest ‘Libex 2018’. In the same month, he also entered the best 100 Dutch cartoons of 2018 list within the ‘Inktspotprijs‘ contest and won the Italian ‘Strike‘ contest for young talents. In September 2019 he won the second prize of the Inktspotprijs 2019.

Since 2021 he has been organizing and overseeing, on behalf of the European Press Prize, the cartoons contest European Cartoon Award.

Since October 2020, he has been a member of the French editorial cartoonists association Cartooning for Peace.

His work is distributed internationally by Cartoon Movement, Cartooning for Peace, and Cartoon Movement US on GoComics.