Ward Sutton is an American illustrator, cartoonist and writer born in Minneapolis and based in New York City

New York City

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. His comic strip, "Sutton Impact" (formerly "Schlock 'n' Roll"), was published in The Village Voice from 1995 to 2007.

Sutton also illustrates and writes a bi-weekly cartoon in TV Guide

TV Guide

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, "That's Entertoonment", and has contributed cartoons and illustrations to the op-ed

Op-ed

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 pages of The New York Times and to Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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, Time

Time (magazine)

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, The Nation

The Nation

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, Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

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and New Yorker. He also illustrates and writes a cartoon for The Onion

The Onion

The Onion is an American news satire organization. It is an entertainment newspaper and a website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news, in addition to a non-satirical entertainment section known as The A.V. Club...

under the pseudonym of 'Kelly', depicting the far-fetched Republican and Fundamentalist Christian one-panels of a middle-aged cartoonist. According to Onion President Sean Mills in an interview with Wikinews

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, the cartoon has generated "a lot of heat." "He has a very unique take on what is going on in the world," said Mills, "and it does tend to upset some people, but that’s the job of an editorial cartoonist, to be a provocateur."

In addition to his work for print media, Sutton designed the animation for the opening credits of the television show Strangers with Candy

Strangers with Candy

Strangers with Candy is a television series produced by Comedy Central. It first aired on April 7, 1999, and concluded its third and final season on October 2, 2000. Its timeslot was Sundays at 10 p.m....

, and has created animation for HBO, VH-1, and TV Land

TV Land

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. He has also designed silk-screened posters for a variety of musical acts, including Beck

Beck

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, Radiohead

Radiohead

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, Phish

Phish

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, and Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam

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.

Sutton, a graduate of St. Olaf College

St. Olaf College

St. Olaf College is a coeducational, residential, four-year, private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, United States. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American immigrant pastors and farmers, led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named after Olaf II of Norway,...

 in Northfield

Northfield

-Places:Australia*Northfield, South AustraliaCanada*Northfield, Nova Scotia England* Northfield, BirminghamScotland* Northfield, EdinburghUnited States* Northfield, Connecticut* Northfield, Illinois* Northfield, Indiana...

, Minnesota, is the brother of writer/musician Mark Sutton.

External links

• The Village Voice Weekly cartoon
• Sutton Impact Studio
• Mother Jones Biography of Mark and Ward Sutton
• 2005 radio interview with Ward Sutton
• List of Sutton's work for MAD Magazine