The Herblock Prize collection consists of submissions for the 2016 competition featuring editorial cartoons from the previous year. Topics featured within the cartoons include the Charlie Hebdo attack of satyric journalists in Paris by gunmen affiliated with Al-Qaeda, the 2016 American presidential election, the hacking of the Ashley Madison infidelity dating site, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis refusing marriage licenses to gay couples, police brutality, the measles outbreak at Disneyworld in Florida due to unvaccinated children, the killing of Cecil the lion by dentist Walter Palmer, ISIS, racism, and sexism. The collection primarily contains cover letters by the artists and/or their sponsors, biographies of the artist, and color reproductions of their work. The artists' submissions are listed with their entry number.