Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
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The Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

 for Editorial Cartoon
Editorial cartoon
An editorial cartoon, also known as a political cartoon, is an illustration containing a commentary that usually relates to current events or personalities....

ing
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 explaining the reasons for the award.

List of winners and their official citations

  • 1922: Rollin Kirby
    Rollin Kirby
    Rollin Kirby was an American political cartoonist. In 1922 he was chronologically the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, an honor that he would receive three times....

    , New York World
    New York World
    The New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 until 1931. The paper played a major role in the history of American newspapers...

    , "for 'On the Road to Moscow.'"
  • 1923: no award given
  • 1924: Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling, Des Moines Register and Tribune, "for 'In Good Old USA.'"
  • 1925: Rollin Kirby
    Rollin Kirby
    Rollin Kirby was an American political cartoonist. In 1922 he was chronologically the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, an honor that he would receive three times....

    , New York World
    New York World
    The New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 until 1931. The paper played a major role in the history of American newspapers...

    , "for 'News from the Outside World.'"
  • 1926: D. R. Fitzpatrick, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri, as far south as...

    , "for 'The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today.'"
  • 1927: Nelson Harding
    Nelson Harding
    Nelson Harding , an editorial cartoonist for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, being honored in 1927 and 1928. To date he is the only cartoonist to be so honored in back-to-back years...

    , Brooklyn Daily Eagle, "for 'Toppling the Idol.'"
  • 1928: Nelson Harding
    Nelson Harding
    Nelson Harding , an editorial cartoonist for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, being honored in 1927 and 1928. To date he is the only cartoonist to be so honored in back-to-back years...

    , Brooklyn Daily Eagle, "for 'May His Shadow Never Grow Less.'"
  • 1929: Rollin Kirby
    Rollin Kirby
    Rollin Kirby was an American political cartoonist. In 1922 he was chronologically the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, an honor that he would receive three times....

    , New York World
    New York World
    The New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 until 1931. The paper played a major role in the history of American newspapers...

    , "for 'Tammany.'"
  • 1930: Charles R. Macauley, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, "for 'Paying for a Dead Horse.'"
  • 1931: Edmund Duffy
    Edmund Duffy
    Edmund Duffy was born March 1, 1899 in Jersey City, New Jersey to a middle class family. Duffy made his name as 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...

    , Baltimore Sun, "for 'An Old Struggle Still Going On.'"
  • 1932: John T. McCutcheon
    John T. McCutcheon
    John Tinney McCutcheon was an American newspaper political cartoonist who was known as the "Dean of American Cartoonists"....

    , Chicago Tribune
    Chicago Tribune
    The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...

    , "for 'A Wise Economist Asks a Question.'"
  • 1933: H. M. Talburt, Washington Daily News
    Washington Daily News
    The Washington Daily News is a daily newspaper serving Washington, North Carolina. It is the smallest daily newspaper to ever win a Pulitzer Prize gold medal....

    , "for 'The Light of Asia.'"
  • 1934: Edmund Duffy
    Edmund Duffy
    Edmund Duffy was born March 1, 1899 in Jersey City, New Jersey to a middle class family. Duffy made his name as 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...

    , Baltimore Sun, "for 'California Points with Pride!'"
  • 1935: Ross A. Lewis, Milwaukee Journal, "for 'Sure, I'll Work for Both Sides.'"
  • 1936: no award given
  • 1937: C. D. Batchelor
    C. D. Batchelor
    Clarence Daniel Batchelor 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 Star...

    , New York Daily News
    New York Daily News
    The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011....

    , "for 'Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy.'"
  • 1938: Vaughn Shoemaker
    Vaughn Shoemaker
    Vaughn Richard Shoemaker was an American editorial cartoonist. He won the 1938 and 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and created the character John Q. Public....

    , Chicago Daily News
    Chicago Daily News
    The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The Daily News was founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William Dougherty in 1875 and began publishing early the next year...

    , "for 'The Road Back.'"
  • 1939: Charles G. Werner, Daily Oklahoman, "for 'Nomination for 1938.'"
  • 1940: Edmund Duffy
    Edmund Duffy
    Edmund Duffy was born March 1, 1899 in Jersey City, New Jersey to a middle class family. Duffy made his name as 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...

    , Baltimore Sun, "for 'The Outstretched Hand.'"
  • 1941: Jacob Burck
    Jacob Burck
    Jacob "Jake" Burck was an American painter, sculptor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.-Early years:Jacob Burck was born January 10, 1907, near Białystok, Poland, the son of ethnic Jewish parents, Abraham Burck and Rebecca Lev Burck...

    , Chicago Daily Times, "for 'If I Should Die Before I Wake.'"
  • 1942: Herbert Lawrence Block (Herblock), NEA
    United Media
    United Media is a large editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. It syndicates 150 comics and editorial columns worldwide. Its core business is the United Feature Syndicate and the Newspaper Enterprise Association...

     service
    , "for 'British Plane'"
  • 1943: Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling, Des Moines Register and Tribune, "for 'What a Place For a Waste Paper Salvage Campaign.'"
  • 1944: Clifford K. Berryman
    Clifford K. Berryman
    Clifford K. Berryman 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....

    , Evening Star (Washington D.C.), "for 'Where Is the Boat Going?'"
  • 1945: Sergeant Bill Mauldin
    Bill Mauldin
    William Henry "Bill" Mauldin was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from the United States...

    , United Features Syndicate
    United Media
    United Media is a large editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. It syndicates 150 comics and editorial columns worldwide. Its core business is the United Feature Syndicate and the Newspaper Enterprise Association...

    , "for distinguished service as a cartoonist, as exemplified by the cartoon entitled, 'Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners,' in the series entitled, 'Up Front With Mauldin.'"
  • 1946: Bruce Alexander Russell, Los Angeles Times
    Los Angeles Times
    The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

    , "for 'Time to Bridge That Gulch.'"
  • 1947: Vaughn Shoemaker
    Vaughn Shoemaker
    Vaughn Richard Shoemaker was an American editorial cartoonist. He won the 1938 and 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and created the character John Q. Public....

    , Chicago Daily News
    Chicago Daily News
    The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The Daily News was founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William Dougherty in 1875 and began publishing early the next year...

    , "for his cartoon, 'Still Racing His Shadow.'"
  • 1948: Reuben L. Goldberg, New York Sun
    New York Sun (historical)
    The Sun was a New York newspaper that was published from 1833 until 1950. It was considered a serious paper, like the city's two more successful broadsheets, The New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune...

    , "for 'Peace Today.'"
  • 1949: Lute Pease
    Lute Pease
    Lucius Curtis Pease , better known as Lute Pease, was an American editorial cartoonist and journalist with a lengthy career through the first half of the 20th century....

    , Newark Evening News
    Newark Evening News
    The Newark Evening News was an American newspaper published in Newark, New Jersey. As New Jersey's largest city, Newark played a major role in New Jersey's journalistic history. At its apex, The News was widely regarded as the newspaper of record in New Jersey. It had bureaus in Montclair,...

    , "for 'Who Me?'"
  • 1950: James T. Berryman, Evening Star (Washington D.C.), "for 'All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington.'"
  • 1951: Reg (Reginald W.) Manning
    Reg Manning
    Reginald W. Manning , better known as Reg Manning, was an American artist and illustrator, best known for his editorial cartoons....

    , Arizona Republic, "for 'Hats.'"
  • 1952: Fred L. Packer, New York Mirror
    New York Mirror
    The New-York Mirror was a weekly newspaper published in New York City from 1823 to 1842, and again as a daily newspaper renamed The Evening Mirror from 1844 to 1898.-History:...

    , "for 'Your Editors Ought to Have More Sense Than to Print What I Say!'"
  • 1953: Edward D. Kuekes
    Edward D. Kuekes
    Edward Daniel Kuekes was an American editorial cartoonist. Working for the Cleveland, Ohio Plain Dealer, he won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning....

    , The Plain Dealer, "for 'Aftermath.'"
  • 1954: Herbert Lawrence Block (Herblock), Washington Post and Times-Herald, "for a cartoon depicting the robed figure of Death saying to Stalin
    Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...

     after he died, 'You Were Always A Great Friend of Mine, Joseph.'"
  • 1955: Daniel R. Fitzpatrick
    Daniel R. Fitzpatrick
    Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick was commonly known as "Daniel R. Fitzpatrick." He was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and an editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Dispatch from 1913 to 1958....

    , St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri, as far south as...

    , "for a cartoon published on June 8, 1954 entitled, 'How Would Another Mistake Help?' showing Uncle Sam
    Uncle Sam
    Uncle Sam is a common national personification of the American government originally used during the War of 1812. He is depicted as a stern elderly man with white hair and a goatee beard...

    , bayonet
    Bayonet
    A bayonet is a knife, dagger, sword, or spike-shaped weapon designed to fit in, on, over or underneath the muzzle of a rifle, musket or similar weapon, effectively turning the gun into a spear...

    ed rifle in hand, pondering whether to wade into a black marsh bearing the legend 'French Mistakes in Indo-China.' The award is also given for distinguished body of the work of Mr. Fitzpatrick in both 1954 and his entire career."
  • 1956: Robert York, Louisville Times, "for his cartoon, 'Achilles' showing a bulging figure of American prosperity tapering to a weak heel labeled 'Farm Prices.'"
  • 1957: Tom Little
    Tom Little (cartoonist)
    Thomas Little was an American cartoonist. Working for the The Nashville Tennessean, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1957....

    , Nashville Tennessean, "for 'Wonder Why My Parents Didn't Give Me Salk Shots?' published on January 12, 1956."
  • 1958: Bruce M. Shanks, Buffalo Evening News, "for 'The Thinker,' published on August 10, 1957, depicting the dilemma of union membership when confronted by racketeering leaders in some labor unions."
  • 1959: William H. (Bill) Mauldin
    Bill Mauldin
    William Henry "Bill" Mauldin was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from the United States...

    , St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri, as far south as...

    , "for I won the Nobel Prize for Literature. What was your crime?' published on October 30, 1958."
  • 1960: no award given
  • 1961: Carey Orr
    Carey Orr
    Carey Cassius Orr was an American editorial cartoonist.In his youth, Orr was a semi-professional baseball pitcher, and he used the money he made from baseball to study at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts...

    , Chicago Tribune
    Chicago Tribune
    The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...

    , "for 'The Kindly Tiger,' published on October 8, 1960."
  • 1962: Edmund S. Valtman
    Edmund S. Valtman
    Edmund S. Valtman was an Estonian-American editorial cartoonist and winner of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning....

    , Hartford Times, "for 'What You Need, Man, Is a Revolution Like Mine,' published on August 31, 1961."
  • 1963: Frank Miller
    Frank Miller (editorial cartoonist)
    Frank Andrea Miller was an American editorial cartoonist. He was a cartoonist for the Des Moines Register from 1953 to 1983...

    , Des Moines Register
    Des Moines Register
    The Des Moines Register is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa, in the United States. A separate edition of the Register is sold throughout much of Iowa.-History:...

    , "for a cartoon which showed a world destroyed with one ragged figure calling to another: 'I said we sure settled that dispute, didn't we!'"
  • 1964: Paul Conrad
    Paul Conrad
    Paul Francis Conrad was an American political cartoonist from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. During college, Conrad started cartooning at the University of Iowa for the Daily Iowan. While serving with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, during World War II, Conrad received a B.A. in art in 1950...

    , The Denver Post
    The Denver Post
    -Ownership:The Post is the flagship newspaper of MediaNews Group Inc., founded in 1983 by William Dean Singleton and Richard Scudder. MediaNews is today one of the nation's largest newspaper chains, publisher of 61 daily newspapers and more than 120 non-daily publications in 13 states. MediaNews...

    , "for his editorial cartooning during the past year."
  • 1965: no award given
  • 1966: Don Wright, Miami News, "for 'You Mean You Were Bluffing?'"
  • 1967: Patrick B. Oliphant, The Denver Post
    The Denver Post
    -Ownership:The Post is the flagship newspaper of MediaNews Group Inc., founded in 1983 by William Dean Singleton and Richard Scudder. MediaNews is today one of the nation's largest newspaper chains, publisher of 61 daily newspapers and more than 120 non-daily publications in 13 states. MediaNews...

    , "for 'They Won't Get Us To The Conference Table . . . Will They?' published February 1, 1966."
  • 1968: Eugene Gray Payne, Charlotte Observer, "for his editorial cartooning in 1967."
  • 1969: John Fischetti
    John Fischetti
    John R. Fischetti was an editorial cartoonist for the New York Herald-Tribune and the Chicago Daily News. He received a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1969 and numerous awards from the National Cartoonists Society.- Biography :Born in Brooklyn, New York, where his Italian father was a...

    , Chicago Daily News
    Chicago Daily News
    The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The Daily News was founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William Dougherty in 1875 and began publishing early the next year...

    , "for his editorial cartooning in 1968."
  • 1970: Thomas F. Darcy
    Thomas F. Darcy
    Thomas Francis Darcy was an American political cartoonist. While working at Newsday, he won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning....

    , Newsday
    Newsday
    Newsday is a daily American newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is sold throughout the New York metropolitan area...

    , "for his editorial cartooning during 1969."
  • 1971: Paul Conrad
    Paul Conrad
    Paul Francis Conrad was an American political cartoonist from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. During college, Conrad started cartooning at the University of Iowa for the Daily Iowan. While serving with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, during World War II, Conrad received a B.A. in art in 1950...

    , Los Angeles Times
    Los Angeles Times
    The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

    "for his editorial cartooning during 1970."
  • 1972: Jeff MacNelly
    Jeff MacNelly
    Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly was a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the popular comic strip Shoe.-Early life:...

    , Richmond News-Leader "for his editorial cartooning during 1971."
  • 1973: no award given
  • 1974: Paul Szep
    Paul Szep
    Paul Michael Szep is a 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 won the Pulitzer Prize twice for Editorial Cartooning in 1974 and 1977. Szep also won the prestigious...

    , Boston Globe "for his editorial cartooning during 1973."
  • 1975: Garry Trudeau
    Garry Trudeau
    Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip.-Background and education:...

    , Universal Press Syndicate
    Universal Press Syndicate
    Universal Press Syndicate, a subsidiary of Andrews McMeel Universal, is the world's largest independent press syndicate. It distributes lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and other content. Popular columns include Dear Abby, Ann Coulter, Roger Ebert and News of the Weird...

    , "for his cartoon strip Doonesbury
    Doonesbury
    Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college...

    ."
  • 1976: Tony Auth
    Tony Auth
    William Anthony Auth Jr. , 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 worked on in 1982 and 1983, and Norb, which he worked on in 1989...

    , The Philadelphia Inquirer
    The Philadelphia Inquirer
    The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the...

    , "for 'O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain,' published on July 22, 1975."
  • 1977: Paul Szep
    Paul Szep
    Paul Michael Szep is a 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 won the Pulitzer Prize twice for Editorial Cartooning in 1974 and 1977. Szep also won the prestigious...

    , Boston Globe
  • 1978: Jeff MacNelly
    Jeff MacNelly
    Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly was a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the popular comic strip Shoe.-Early life:...

    , Richmond News Leader
  • 1979: Herbert Lawrence Block, Washington Post, "for the body of his work."
  • 1980: Don Wright, Miami News
  • 1981: Mike Peters, Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio)
    Dayton Daily News
    The Dayton Daily News is a daily newspaper published in Dayton, Ohio. It is owned by Cox Enterprises. In the 2010 Associated Press Society of Ohio newspaper competition that takes place every year, DaytonDailyNews.com was named "the best large-newspaper web site in Ohio".-History:On August 15,...

  • 1982: Ben Sargent
    Ben Sargent
    Ben Sargent 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....

    , Austin American-Statesman
    Austin American-Statesman
    The Austin American-Statesman is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of Texas. It is an award-winning publication owned by Cox Enterprises. The Newspaper places focus on issues affecting Austin and the Central Texas region....

  • 1983: Richard Locher
    Dick Locher
    Richard Earl Locher , better known as Dick Locher, is a nationally syndicated cartoonist.-Early life and career: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. While in Chicago, he became an assistant to Rick...

    , Chicago Tribune
    Chicago Tribune
    The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...

  • 1984: Paul Conrad
    Paul Conrad
    Paul Francis Conrad was an American political cartoonist from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. During college, Conrad started cartooning at the University of Iowa for the Daily Iowan. While serving with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, during World War II, Conrad received a B.A. in art in 1950...

    , Los Angeles Times
    Los Angeles Times
    The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

  • 1985: Jeff MacNelly
    Jeff MacNelly
    Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly was a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the popular comic strip Shoe.-Early life:...

    , Chicago Tribune
    Chicago Tribune
    The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...

  • 1986: Jules Feiffer
    Jules Feiffer
    Jules Ralph Feiffer is an American syndicated cartoonist, most notable for his long-run comic strip titled Feiffer. He has created more than 35 books, plays and screenplays...

    , The Village Voice
    The Village Voice
    The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...

  • 1987: Berke Breathed, Washington Post Writers Group
  • 1988: Doug Marlette, Atlanta Constitution and Charlotte Observer
  • 1989: Jack Higgins
    Jack Higgins (cartoonist)
    Jack Higgins is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times.-Early life and career:...

    , Chicago Sun-Times
    Chicago Sun-Times
    The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of the Sun-Times Media Group.-History:The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city...

  • 1990: Tom Toles
    Tom Toles
    Thomas Gregory Toles is an American political cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning...

    , The Buffalo News
    The Buffalo News
    The Buffalo News is the primary newspaper of the Buffalo – Niagara Falls metropolitan area, and the area's only daily newspaper. It is the only newspaper owned by Berkshire Hathaway.-History:...

    , "for his work during the year as exemplified by the cartoon 'First Amendment
    First Amendment to the United States Constitution
    The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering...

    .'"
  • 1991: Jim Borgman
    Jim Borgman
    James Mark Borgman is an American cartoonist. He is known for his political cartoons and his nationally syndicated comic strip Zits.-Personal:...

    , Cincinnati Enquirer
  • 1992: Signe Wilkinson
    Signe Wilkinson
    Signe Wilkinson 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 once named "the Pennsylvania state vegetable substitute" by the former speaker of the...

    , Philadelphia Daily News
    Philadelphia Daily News
    The Philadelphia Daily News is a tabloid newspaper that serves Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The newspaper is owned by Philadelphia Media Holdings which also owns Philadelphia's other major newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Daily News began publishing on March 31, 1925, under...

  • 1993: Stephen R. Benson, Arizona Republic
  • 1994: Michael Ramirez
    Michael Ramirez
    Michael Patrick Ramirez is a two-time American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. His cartoons typically present conservative viewpoints....

    , The Commercial Appeal
    The Commercial Appeal
    The Commercial Appeal is the predominant daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is owned by The E. W. Scripps Company, a major North American media company. Scripps also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in...

    , "for his trenchant cartoons on contemporary issues."
  • 1995: Mike Luckovich
    Mike Luckovich
    Michael Edward Luckovich is an editorial cartoonist who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1989...

    , Atlanta Constitution
  • 1996: Jim Morin
    Jim Morin
    Jim Morin 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 1996, he shared the Pulitzer with the Miami Herald Editorial Board in 1983 and was a Pulitzer...

    , Miami Herald
  • 1997: Walt Handelsman
    Walt Handelsman
    Walt Handelsman is an editorial cartoonist for Newsday. He joined the paper in February 2001.-Biography:...

    , Times-Picayune
  • 1998: Stephen P. Breen
    Steve Breen
    Stephen Paul Breen is a nationally syndicated cartoonist. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1998 and 2009....

    , Asbury Park Press
    Asbury Park Press
    The Asbury Park Press is a daily newspaper in Monmouth and Ocean counties of New Jersey and has the third largest circulation in the state...

  • 1999: David Horsey
    David Horsey
    David Horsey 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....

    , Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is an online newspaper and former print newspaper covering Seattle, Washington, United States, and the surrounding metropolitan area...

  • 2000: Joel Pett
    Joel Pett
    Joel W. Pett is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader.-Early life and career:...

    , Lexington Herald-Leader
    Lexington Herald-Leader
    The Lexington Herald-Leader is a newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and based in the U.S. city of Lexington, Kentucky. According to the 1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook, the Herald-Leaders paid circulation is the second largest in the Commonwealth of Kentucky...

  • 2001: Ann Telnaes
    Ann Telnaes
    Ann Carolyn Telnaes 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 the second woman cartoonist to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning...

    , Los Angeles Times Syndicate
    Los Angeles Times Syndicate
    The Los Angeles Times Syndicate and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate International are newspaper syndicates which sold more than 140 features in more than 100 countries around the world....

  • 2002: Clay Bennett
    Clay Bennett
    Clay Bennett 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....

    , Christian Science Monitor
  • 2003: David Horsey
    David Horsey
    David Horsey 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....

    , Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is an online newspaper and former print newspaper covering Seattle, Washington, United States, and the surrounding metropolitan area...

    , "for his perceptive cartoons executed with a distinctive style and sense of humor."
  • 2004: Matt Davies
    Matt Davies (cartoonist)
    -Early life and career:Davies was born in London, England in 1966 and lived there before relocating with his family to the United States in 1983.He graduated from Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut in 1985, and subsequently studied at The Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, GA,...

    , Journal News (White Plains, New York)
    The Journal News
    The Journal News is a newspaper in New York serving the suburban New York City counties of Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam, a region known as the Lower Hudson Valley. It is owned by the Gannett Company, Inc. The Journal News was created through a merger of several daily community newspapers...

    , "for his piercing cartoons on an array of topics, drawn with a fresh, original style."
  • 2005: Nick Anderson
    Nick Anderson (cartoonist)
    Nick Anderson is an American editorial cartoonist. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his work with the Louisville Courier-Journal. The judges credited his "unusual graphic style that produced extraordinarily thoughtful and powerful messages." He currently draws cartoons for the Houston Chronicle; the...

    , Courier-Journal, Louisville, "for his unusual graphic style that produced extraordinarily thoughtful and powerful messages."
  • 2006: Mike Luckovich
    Mike Luckovich
    Michael Edward Luckovich is an editorial cartoonist who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1989...

     of Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "for his powerful cartoons on an array of issues, drawn with a simple but piercing style."
  • 2007: Walt Handelsman
    Walt Handelsman
    Walt Handelsman is an editorial cartoonist for Newsday. He joined the paper in February 2001.-Biography:...

     of Newsday
    Newsday
    Newsday is a daily American newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is sold throughout the New York metropolitan area...

    , "for his stark, sophisticated cartoons and his impressive use of zany animation."
  • 2008: Michael Ramirez
    Michael Ramirez
    Michael Patrick Ramirez is a two-time American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. His cartoons typically present conservative viewpoints....

     of Investor's Business Daily
    Investor's Business Daily
    Investor's Business Daily is a national newspaper in the United States, published Monday through Friday, that covers international business, finance, and the global economy...

    , for "his provocative cartoons that rely on originality, humor and detailed artistry."
  • 2009: Stephen P. Breen
    Steve Breen
    Stephen Paul Breen is a nationally syndicated cartoonist. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1998 and 2009....

    , San Diego Union-Tribune, "for his agile use of a classic style to produce wide ranging cartoons that engage readers with power, clarity and humor."
  • 2010: Mark Fiore
    Mark Fiore
    Mark Fiore is an American political cartoonist specializing in Flash-animated editorial cartoons, whom the Wall Street Journal recently called the undisputed guru of the form....

     of SFGate.com
    San Francisco Chronicle
    thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...

    , for "his animated cartoons"..."where his biting wit, extensive research and ability to distill complex issues set a high standard for an emerging form of commentary."
  • 2011: Mike Keefe
    Mike Keefe
    Mike Keefe is an American editorial cartoonist best known for his work at the Denver Post, for which he has drawn cartoons since 1975. His cartoons are nationally syndicated, and have appeared in hundreds of newspapers as well as in Europe, Asia, and most major U.S...

     of Denver Post, "for his widely ranging cartoons that employ a loose, expressive style to send strong, witty messages."
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