Fiscal Health
- November
- 20
Matt Davies
Matt Davies is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Journal News. Born in London, he immigrated to the United States in 1983 and pursued his love of drawing, writing and making fun of people in positions of power throughout his educational career, while fitting in schoolwork during his spare time.
After several years at art college in Savannah, Ga., and the School of Visual Arts in New York, Davies took his "skills" to the street and 13 years ago, after a couple of years of freelancing, somehow managed to land his current job as staff editorial cartoonist at The Journal News. Since then, he has drawn thousands of cartoons, won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 2001, the inaugural Herblock Prize in 2004 and the aforementioned "Big P"
Faced with the challenge of a newspaper readership shifting its news-garnering habits to the Web, his editors asked if he would be willing to explain himself and what he does with a blog on The Journal News' Web site, LoHud.com.
"No way!" was his answer: "N-O... Forget it."
E-mail Matt Davies at mdavies@lohud.com
Entries written by Matt Davies
Fee-dom
- November
- 17
China holds almost $800 billion in US debt and earns around $50 billion in interest. Which kind of makes our exhortations for the Chinese Government to endow its own people with the same free speech rights that Americans enjoy seem like a cute annual ritual, rather than the leveraged diplomatic assault it should be.
An Appreciation
- November
- 11
In the cynical and skeptical world of the modern political cartoonist, there’s rarely room for simple tributes or homages. Rare doesn’t mean never, though.
If you are a veteran, today I’d like to say thank you.
