Jack Ohman (born September 1, 1960) is an American editorial cartoonist based in Portland, Oregon. He has been The Oregonian's cartoonist since 1983 and his work is syndicated nationwide to over 300 newspapers by Tribune Media Services.
Ohman worked as a political aide for the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party (DFL) during his high school years in Minnesota. At age 17, Ohman worked at the Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper of the Univer...
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Jack Ohman (born September 1, 1960) is an American editorial cartoonist based in Portland, Oregon. He has been The Oregonian's cartoonist since 1983 and his work is syndicated nationwide to over 300 newspapers by Tribune Media Services.
Ohman worked as a political aide for the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party (DFL) during his high school years in Minnesota. At age 17, Ohman worked at the Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Minnesota. At age 19, Ohman was the youngest cartoonist ever to be nationally syndicated. His first daily newspaper job was at The Columbus Dispatch, where he was hired in 1981. He then moved to the Detroit Free Press in 1982, and went to The Oregonian in 1983.
Ohman was a regular art contributor to ABC News Nightline in 1984.
In 1986, through the sales of copies of his cartoons on the space shuttle Challenger accident, Ohman raised over $30,000 for the families of the astronauts. It was the fifth largest private donation in the United...
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