January 17, 2005
Edmund Valtman 1914-2005
Edmund S. Valtman, a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for the Hartford Times,
died on Wednesday, January 12, at a retirement home in Bloomfield, Connecticut. He was 90.
Valtman was probably best known as a cartoonist of the Cold War era who had experienced first hand living under the Soviet Union. He grew up in Estonia, which was overrun by the Soviet Union in 1940, captured by Germany for three years, and then occupied again by Soviets in 1944. The illustrator, who by then was staff editorial cartoonist at two Estonian newspapers, fled his country and spent four years in a displacement camp before finding a sponsor and coming to America in 1949.
A gifted caricaturist, Valtman was editorial cartoonist at the
Times from 1951 until his retirement in 1975. According to his obituary, his Pulitzer-winning cartoon from August 31, 1961 showed "a Fidel Castro look-alike leading a beleaguered, shackled and barefoot man labeled 'Cuba.' He tells another man, in a broken-down cart labeled 'Brazil': 'What You Need, Man, Is a Revolution Like Mine!'"
Valtman donated 340 of his drawings to the Library of Congress in 2001, leading
to this biographical profile.
He was preceded in death by his wife.
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