Bio
Robert Ariail has been creating award winning cartoons in South Carolina for 40 years. His work is distributed to over 600 newspapers by Andrews McMeel Syndication.
Robert’s cartoons have won international, national, regional and state awards including: The National Association of Alternative Newsmedia Award, 2023 ( for his Lowcountry strip; The National Press Foundation’s Berryman Award, 2012; The United Nations Ranan Lurie Award, 2009; The Overseas Press Club’s Thomas Nast Award, 1997; The Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award, 1992; The National Headliner Award,1990; The Society of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade Award ( seven times ); The S.C. Press Association’s President’s Award for lifetime achievement, 2016 and The Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award for the arts ( South Carolina’s highest award in the arts ), 2012.
Ariail was also a Finalist for The Pulitzer Prize three times.
Robert Ariail is a South Carolina native and University of South Carolina graduate.
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