CARTOONIST PROFILE

Bio

If political cartooning had a power couple, it was Dick & Mary Locher. Dick Locher was the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune (as well as having a side gig drawing the Dick Tracy comic strip for several decades), and he and his wife Mary were a constant and entertaining presence at AAEC and NCS gatherings.

After the tragic death of their son John in 1986, the Locher’s friends created an award in his honor, and over the next 30-some years Mary and Dick became mentors to dozens of cartoonists who won the John Locher Memorial Award, several of whom went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Mary Locher continues to sit on the advisory board of the Locher Award and support young artists in their endeavors.