David Horsey
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist David Horsey is a political commentator for the Los Angeles Times. He is syndicated by Tribune Media Services and his work has appeared in hundreds of media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek and MSNBC.com .
Besides winning two Pulitzers for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1999 and 2003, Horsey has received the National Press Foundation's Beryman Award for Cartoonist of the Year (1998) and many other honors, including first place in the Best of the West Journalism Competition for his columns about the 2008 presidential election campaign.
Horsey's career has taken him to national political party conventions, presidential primaries, the Olympics, the Super Bowl, assignments in Europe, Japan and Mexico and two extended stints. working at the Hearst Newspapers Washington Bureau.
Horsey received a BA in Communications from the University of Washington where he was editor of the student newspaper, The Daily. As a Rotary Foundation Scholar, Horsey earned an MA in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury (U.K.). In 2004, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Seattle University. Columns magazine has named him as one of the 100 most notable alumni of the University of Washington in the 20th Century. Horsey is a member of the advisory board for the U of W College of Arts and Sciences.
In 2000-2001, he served as president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.
Horsey has published six collections of his professional work, Horsey's Rude Awakenings (1981), Horsey's Greatest Hits of the '8Os (1989), The Fall of Man (1994), One Man Show (1999), From Hanging Chad to Baghdad (2003) and Draw Quick, Shoot Straight (2007). In 1992, he co-edited an anthology, Cartooning AIDS Around the World.
For escape, Horsey spends a few weeks each year working as a cowboy in Montana.
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