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Bio

Adam Zyglis is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Buffalo News, his hometown newspaper.

  Zyglis began drawing weekly editorial cartoons for The Griffin at Canisius College in 2000, where he graduated summa cum laude from the All College Honors Program with a degree in Computer Science, and minors in Mathematics and Studio Art.

 After earning three national collegiate cartooning awards from his work at The Griffin, Zyglis landed an internship in the Graphics Department of The Buffalo News. At just 22 years old, Zyglis became the staff cartoonist for The News in August of 2004, replacing Tom Toles who left for The Washington Post to succeed the legendary Herblock.

 Since then his cartoons have become syndicated through Cagle Cartoons and have appeared in magazines, books and newspapers around the world, including The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and MAD magazine. In 2013 he won the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award, given by the National Press Foundation. His work earned him a National Headliner Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2023. Additionally, in 2015 he won the

Grambs Aronson Cartooning with a Conscience award and the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartoons.  Later that year he was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award from Canisius College. He has also been awarded the AAEC Ink Bottle Award for his service to the profession, and he has won the 2020 and 2022 Overseas Press Club’s Best Cartoon Award for his work on international affairs.

 Zyglis has served as a Juror for the Pulitzer in 2017 and 2018, and he’s served as President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC). In 2016 he helped organize and host the nation’s editorial cartoonists at Duke University’s Satire festival.