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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning has been awarded since 1922 for a distinguished cartoon or portfolio of cartoons published during the year, characterized by originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing, and pictorial effect. The Pulitzer Committee issues an official citation...
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Rollin Kirby
Rollin Kirby (September 4, 1875, Galva, Illinois – May 8, 1952, New York, New York) was an American political cartoonist.
Kirby worked as a cartoonist at the New York Mail, New York World and the New York Post. He was awarded Pulitzer Prizes for...
Nelson Harding
Nelson Harding is a Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist.
John T. McCutcheon
John Tinney McCutcheon (May 6, 1870 – June 10, 1949) was an American newspaper political cartoonist who was known as the "Dean of American Cartoonists".
McCutcheon was born near South Raub, Tippecanoe County, Indiana to Captain John Barr McCutcheon...
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C. D. Batchelor
Clarence Daniel Batchelor (April 1, 1888, Osage City, Kansas – September 5, 1977) was an American editorial cartoonist who was also noted for painting and sculpture.
Batchelor's journalistic career began in 1911 as a staff artist for the Kansas City...
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Edmund Duffy
Edmund Duffy (born 1899 or 1900 – September 12, 1962) was an editorial cartoonist for The Baltimore Sun. He joined the paper in 1924 and received high praise from H. L. Mencken. He was among the first white cartoonist to attack the Ku Klux Klan and...
Jacob Burck
Jacob Burck (1907 - 1982) was an American painter, sculptor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
Jacob Burck was born January 10, 1907, near Białystok, Poland, the son of ethnic Jewish parents, Abraham Burck and Rebecca Lev Burck. The...
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Jay Norwood Darling
Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling (October 21, 1876 - February 12, 1962) was a Pulitzer-Prize winning American cartoonist.
Darling was born in Norwood, Michigan, where his parents, Marcellus and Clara, had recently moved so that Marcellus could begin work...
Clifford K. Berryman
Clifford K. Berryman (April 2, 1869 – December 11, 1949) was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist with the Washington Star newspaper from 1907-1949. He was also a cartoonist for the Washington Post from 1891-1907.
Berryman was born on April 2, 1869...
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Vaughn Shoemaker
Vaughn Shoemaker is a Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist.
Reg Manning
Reginald W. Manning (1905 – 1986), better known as Reg Manning, was an American artist and illustrator, best known for his editorial cartoons.
He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and during his childhood came to live in Phoenix, Arizona. Several...
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Daniel R. Fitzpatrick
D. R. Fitzpatrick is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
Bill Mauldin
William Henry "Bill" Mauldin (October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from the United States. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the...
Edmund S. Valtman
Edmund S. Valtman (May 31, 1914-January 12, 2005) was an Estonian-American editorial cartoonist and winner of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
Born in Tallinn, Estonia, he sold his first cartoons at age 15 to the children's magazine...
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Frank Miller
Frank Andrea Miller (1926 – February 17, 1983) was an American editorial cartoonist. He was a cartoonist for the Des Moines Register from 1953 to 1983. In 1963, Miller received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for his notable editorial...
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John Fischetti
John R. Fischetti (September 27, 1916 – November 18, 1980) was an editorial cartoonist for the New York Herald-Tribune and the Chicago Daily News.
In 1969 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. He also received the National Cartoonist...
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Pat Oliphant
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Oliphant (b. July 24, 1934 in Adelaide, Australia) is the most widely syndicated political cartoonist in the world, described by the New York Times as "the most influential cartoonist now working". His trademark is a small...
Garry Trudeau
Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip.
Trudeau was born in New York City, the son of Jean Douglas (née Moore) and Francis Berger Trudeau. He is the great-grandson...
Tony Auth
William Anthony Auth Jr. (born May 7, 1942, in Akron, Ohio), better known as Tony Auth, is an editorial cartoonist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he has worked since 1971. His other work includes the comic strip Full Disclosure, which he...
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Paul Szep
Paul Michael Szep (born July 29, 1941) in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and is celebrated political cartoonist. He was the chief editorial cartoonist at the Boston Globe from 1967- 2001 and has been syndicated to hundreds of newspapers worldwide. He...
Herblock
Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October 13, 1909 – October 7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author.
During the course of his long career, he won three Pulitzer Prizes (1942, 1954, 1979), the Presidential Medal...
Don Wright
Donald Conway "Don" Wright (born January 23, 1934) is an American editorial cartoonist.
Wright began his newspaper career as a photographer and photo editor, switching to editorial cartooning in 1963. He worked for The Miami News until it ceased...
Mike Peters
Michael Bartley Peters (born October 9, 1943, St. Louis, Missouri), better known as Mike Peters, is an American cartoonist.
He draws the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm, as well as syndicated editorial cartoons that appear in papers all over the...
Ben Sargent
Ben Sargent (born November 26, 1948) is an American editorial cartoonist. He began drawing editorial cartoons for the Austin American-Statesman in 1974 and retired in 2009. His cartoons are also distributed nationally by Universal Press Syndicate....
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Dick Locher
Richard Earl Locher (born June 4, 1929), better known as Dick Locher, is a nationally syndicated cartoonist.
Locher was born in Dubuque, Iowa. After high school, he began studying art at the University of Iowa and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts....
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Paul Conrad
Paul Francis Conrad (born June 27, 1924) is an American political cartoonist. He was chief editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times from 1964 to 1993 and had been syndicated to hundreds of newspapers worldwide. He earned the Pulitzer Prize for...
Jeff MacNelly
Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly (September 17, 1947 – June 8, 2000) was a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the popular comic strip Shoe.
MacNelly was born in New York City in 1947 and grew up on Long Island....
Jules Feiffer
Jules Ralph Feiffer (b. January 26, 1929) is an American syndicated cartoonist, most notable for his long-run comic strip titled Feiffer. He is the author of numerous plays, screenplays and children's books. In 1986 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his...
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Berkeley Breathed
Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (born June 21, 1957) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director, and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip which dealt with socio...
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Doug Marlette
Douglas Nigel Marlette (December 6, 1949 – July 10, 2007) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American editorial cartoonist who, at the time of his death, had also published two novels and was "finding his voice in writing long-length fiction."
He was born...
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Jack Higgins
Jack Higgins (born August 19, 1954) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times.
Higgins was born in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from the College of Holy Cross with a B.A. in Economics.
He began editorial...
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Tom Toles
Thomas Gregory Toles (born October 22, 1951) is a American political cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Similar to Oliphant's use of his character Punk, Toles also tends to include a small doodle,...
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Jim Borgman
James Mark Borgman (born February 24, 1954) is an American cartoonist. He is known for his political cartoons and his nationally syndicated comic strip Zits.
Borgman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to James and Marian Borgman, where he began his career...
Signe Wilkinson
Signe Wilkinson (born July 25, 1959, in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an editorial cartoonist best known for her work at the Philadelphia Daily News. She is the first female cartoonist to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1992 and was...
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Steve Benson
Stephen Reed Benson (born January 2, 1954 in Sacramento, California) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning liberal U.S. editorial cartoonist for The Arizona Republic. Benson is the grandson of former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and former LDS Church...
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Jim Morin
Jim Morin (born January 30, 1953, in Washington, D.C.) is a painter of more than 30 years, usually working in the medium of oil, and the editorial cartoonist at the Miami Herald since 1978. Morin won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in...
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Joel Pett
Joel W. Pett (born September 1, 1953) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Pett was born in Bloomington, Indiana. He moved to Ibadan, Nigeria with his family in 1959 before returning to America...
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Ann Telnaes
Ann Carolyn Telnaes (born 1960 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a editorial cartoonist. Unlike many editorial cartoonists, Telnaes does not draw for any one set newspaper, and her cartoons are instead syndicated across the United States. In 2001 she became...
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Clay Bennett
Clay Bennett (born January 20, 1958) is an American editorial cartoonist. Currently drawing for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Bennett is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
Born in Clinton, South Carolina, Bennett...
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David Horsey
David Horsey (born 1951) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist in the United States. His cartoons appear in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and are syndicated to newspapers nationwide.
Horsey was born in Evansville, Indiana and moved to...
Matt Davies
Matt Davies (born 1966) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Journal News.
Davies was born in London, England, and lived there before relocating to the United States in 1983.
After college, he began doing freelance cartoons,...
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Nick Anderson
Nick Anderson is an American editorial cartoonist. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his work with the Louisville Courier-Journal. He currently draws cartoons for the Houston Chronicle; the newspaper's Web site maintains a blog for his cartoons and video...
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Mike Luckovich
Michael Edward Luckovich (born January 28, 1960,) is an editorial cartoonist who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1989. He is syndicated nationally to about 150 newspapers (as of October 2005), through Creators Syndicate and is...
Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman (born December 3, 1956 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an editorial cartoonist for Newsday. He joined the paper in February 2001.
Walt Handelsman graduated from Dean College (Franklin, MA) with an associate degree in Art Therapy in 1977;...
Michael Ramirez
Michael Patrick Ramirez (born May 11, 1961) is a two-time American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. His cartoons typically present conservative viewpoints.
Ramirez was born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the University of California,...
