In 1989, he won the Overseas Press Club's award for the "Best Cartoons on Foreign Affairs for 1989," and in 1991, he was awarded the National Headliners award for editorial cartoonists. He was a runner-up for the Pulitzer in 1987 before garnering the 1995 win. Impressive as these achievements are, they are only the latest in a long line of awards for Luckovich.
The Reuben awards are distributed each year by the National Cartoonists Society and are considered professional cartooning's highest honor. He had previously received the Reuben award for Editorial Cartooning in 2001, but this was his first time to be named the overall outstanding cartoonist by a group of his peers. This was the second Pulitzer for Luckovich his first was awarded in 1995. Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Constitution received two amazing honors in 2006, winning both a Pulitzer Prize and the Reuben award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.
He still draws dinosaurs.Ĭheck out his comic strips, Zack Hill and Strange Brew. He and his wife, Kathy, have a daughter and two sons, and live in Little Rock. Deering also creates the comic panel Too Much Coffee. His promotion to chief editorial cartoonist in 1988 made his cartoons the state's best-known.
Along the way, he found his strength in interlocking art with comment.Īt the Democrat-Gazette, Deering advanced from layout artist to editorial cartoonist in 1981-82. After studying art with Truman Alston, Deering focused on commercial and fine art at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is a 14-year member of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists.īorn in 1956 in Little Rock, Deering has been drawing since his childhood fascination with science fiction and dinosaurs - subjects he made into comic books. Bill Clinton Was a Friend of Ours (1993, with Vic Harville). Winner of the National Press Foundation's 1997 Berryman Award, Deering also gained top honors in the 1994 national John Fischetti Cartoon Competition and was the seven-time winner of the Arkansas Press Association's Best Editorial Cartoonist award.ĭeering's work is collected in two books: Deering's State of Mind (1990) and We Knew Bill Clinton. Five times a week, his cartoon comments entertain (or sometimes enrage) readers throughout Arkansas, in Washington, D.C., and across the country.
John Deering is chief editorial cartoonist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the state's largest newspaper. Marlette has also illustrated two published children’s books co-authored by Orlando Sentinel sports columnist Mike Bianchi, as well as a recently published children's book about a carrot-eating dog titled "Harry Loves Carrots." His work has been awarded by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors for best editorial cartoons on state issues and former Governor Charlie Crist referred to himself regularly as Marlette's biggest fan, despite the fact that he was also regularly a target in cartoons.? With this in mind, Andy works daily to learn and uphold the disciplines and values passed on to him by his late uncle.Īndy's editorial cartoons have become both hated and adored by daily readers.
Doug's tragic death in July of 2007 made evermore poignant the elder Marlette’s fierce and faithful devotion to the art form of editorial cartooning as a cornerstone of American free speech. Marlette received a priceless editorial cartoon education while living with his uncle and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette in Hillsborough, N.C. Born and raised by underpaid public school teachers in Sanford, Fla., Andy Marlette graduated from the University of Florida and became staff editorial cartoonist at the Pensacola News Journal in 2007.