Don Landgren Jr.
Don Landgren Jr. has been the editorial cartoonist for The Landmark, a weekly newspaper in Central Massachusetts, since 1982, where he mainly covers local issues. He has also drawn cartoons for other Central Massachusetts newspapers including The Item in Clinton, Mass., The New Leader in Spencer, Mass. and the Marlboro Enterprise/Hudson Daily Sun.
His work has also appeared in the Boston Herald, Editorial Humor, Constitution magazine, Public Citizen magazine, Dog Fancy and Cat Fancy magazines and in the yearly book series, Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year.
His work is showcased along with 150 other editorial cartoonists from across the nation in the new book "Attack of the Political Cartoonists" published July of 2004. The book is available at bookstores everywhere.
One cartoon on recycling, published in the 1991 edition of Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, has been used in many educational text books by publisher Steck-Vaughn. That same original cartoon is currently archived in the large collection at the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library
His infamous Ebonics cartoon is featured in "Beyond Ebonics," a book by Stanford University linguistics professor John Baugh published by Oxford University Press.
He has won 21 awards for his editorial cartoons from numerous press associations. He has won six awards from Massachusetts Press Association, four from the National Newspaper Association, five from the Suburban Newspapers of America and most recently six from the New England Press Association where he swept the 2008 Weekly editorial cartoon category winning first, second and third places.
He has also won numerous awards from the New England Associated Press News Executives Association (NEAPNEA) and from the Society for News Design as well as UPI New England for his page designs at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
Landgren has been a member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists since 1986 and was the spring editor of the AAEC's quarterly newsletter "The Notebook." The National Caricaturists Network accepted him as a member in 2001. In 2006, he was accepted into the National Cartoonists Society.
He works full-time for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette as their chief graphic designer. He is a 1984 graduate of Anna Maria College. Don and his wife, Jennifer, have two daughters, Kyra and Bridget.
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