Nick Anderson Wins Cartooning Pulitzer



Well-respected Louisville Courier-Journal cartoonist Nick Anderson won this year's Pulitzer Prize for cartooning, it was announced yesterday. The news came as a shock to Anderson because a reputable list of leaked finalists a month ago did not have his name on it. In fact, one of the criticisms of that short list was that it consisted of cartooning veterans and there were younger cartoonists like Anderson who had yet to have their day in the sun. Anderson won for a suite of cartoons that included commentary on America's military presence in Iraq.

You can find a local article congratulating Anderson here, the cartoonist's page at the Cagle site here, and a biography here. Some tidbits: he incorporates his son's names into his cartoons, he was hired by the Courier-Journal despite their already having a cartoonist because they wanted to lock him down, and although he's essentially a left-leaning cartoonist in a right-careening region of the country I can't recall any incident when readers were terribly upset with him or thought he was out of touch.
 
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