I'm not exactly sure how it escaped my attention, but Nate Beeler of the Washington Examinerhas won 2009 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons from the National Press Foundation. Beeler is 28 years old, and has been with with the Examiner since 2005. His work has a classic contemporary feel, meaning that it has the same general "look" of a lot of the best and most successful editorial cartoonists of the last three decades.
Past winners include Steve Breen, Stuart Carlson, Jim Morin, David Horsey, Ann Telnaes and Signe Wilkinson -- a fairly powerful line-up of recent Pulitzer Prize winners -- and it wouldn't be surprising for Beeler to move into their company in the next few years.
