Bio
Since 1982, Don Landgren Jr. has been an award-winning editorial cartoonist whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and publications throughout Massachusetts and across the United States.
Landgren drew editorial cartoons for The Landmark for 26 years, from 1982 to 2008, and returned to the publication from 2019 through 2024. He also spent more than 35 years contributing cartoons and illustrations to various Worcester Telegram & Gazette publications, including the Worcester Evening Gazette, Sunday Telegram, and Worcester Magazine. From 2019 to 2022, his cartoons also appeared in the Worcester Business Journal.
Over the years, his editorial cartoons have been published in numerous Central Massachusetts newspapers, including The Item in Clinton, The New Leader in Spencer, and the Marlboro Enterprise/Hudson Daily Sun. He also contributed illustrations to Compliance Week, a business intelligence publication covering corporate governance, risk, and compliance.
His nationally distributed work has appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, and numerous newspapers through the USA Today Network. His cartoons have also been distributed nationally by More Content Now, appearing from 2014 through 2021 in hundreds of daily and weekly newspapers and their corresponding websites, including the Detroit Free Press, The Record in New Jersey, Wilmington News, Akron Beacon Journal, Fort Myers News-Press, Naples Daily News, The Topeka Capital-Journal, The Canton Repository, and Massachusetts publications such as the MetroWest Daily News, Taunton Daily Gazette, Fall River Herald News, and The Enterprise in Brockton.
His work has also appeared in the Boston Herald, Editorial Humor, Constitution magazine, Public Citizen magazine, Dog Fancy, Cat Fancy, and the annual Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year book series. One of his cartoons even made its way into Morgunblaðið, a newspaper in Iceland.
For a look at the many newspapers that have published Landgren’s cartoons, search online for “Landgren cartoon” or visit his collection of reprints at donlandgren.com.
In addition to his editorial cartooning career, Landgren has been entertaining audiences at private parties, weddings, college events, corporate functions, and other special events since 1998 through PARTOONS: Caricatures by Don Landgren Jr. Today, PARTOONS provides live caricature entertainment for events throughout New England.
Visit partoons.net to learn more or book Don Landgren Jr. and the PARTOONS team for your next event.
