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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
I sketched up various cartoon permutations of Bernie Madoff this week, but ultimately none of them said much more than he’s going to get his in jail. Blah, blah, blah, there’s a thousand cartoons on the web saying the same obvious thing. The bigger story is that lax Federal oversight is unlikely to protect investors [...]
My friend and talented fellow editorial cartoonist Mike Lester, sent me this story this morning. I SWEAR it was just a coincidence. I don’t read the Orlando Daily whatsit’s local stories online looking for colloquial metaphors! Perhaps I should start. That would have saved me a whole pile of thinking…
Pursuant to my previous blog entry…
The media gives its audience what it wants, so I suppose we really should be looking at the man in the mirror here. Oof. Sorry. That’s enough of that. Rest in peace, Mr. Jackson.
Much to the relief of “President” Ahmedinejad and Governor Sanford (I’m sure), the untimely death of Michael Jackson has overwhelmingly placed philandering politicians and the Iranian democracy crisis on news cycle back-burners for the time being. Nonetheless, we can reminisce – Here’s what I penned over the past few days…
Drew this scene from memory. Looks like my kitchen floor after breakfast w/my 21 month old son. He has an excuse though.
I love drawing angry men yelling out of windows. Conjures fond childhood memories.
Another thing that conjures fond childhood memories is not being handed an ER bill for 10,000 Pounds the time I broke my big toe in a spectacular cycling accident near London. (That’s approximately the amount I was charged when I broke my [...]
This is tomorrow’s cartoon…But in light of today’s events in Iran, thought I’d publish it on the blog a day early.
Breaking news: Nothing happening in Albany.
Apart from the daily bulletins of who refuses to recognize whose “leadership,” there really isn’t a hugely noticeable difference in the actual substance coming from the state capital. I’ve always felt like the place almost exists in some far off fantasy parish, with no apparent bearing (other than its [...]
I went in several visual directions before sketching up this image. Almost did an oil derrick/frame drilling into consumers/customers/victims – or whatever you call people who got shafted by the bank biz – but I thought this was a more amusing take on the “framework” motif. I really thought long and hard about putting [...]
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