Weighty Argument
- November
- 8
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
Govt. Cuts
- November
- 6
If I were you, I might question my use of metaphors here, but I honestly just felt like drawing a stupid scarlet pimpernel type guy. Okay – got that off my chest.
Now, Rob Astorino just got elected to run Westchester County. He ousted twelve-year incumbent Andy Spano, for which he should be [...]
Spring Loaded
- November
- 4
5 cent deposit on water bottles goes into full effect in NY on Sunday. The deposit pretty much ensures that most of these idiotic plastic bottles won’t end up in landfills, as they do now. And it’s only an egregious and evil governmental financial overreach if you don’t bother to redeem your deposit.
Protest
- November
- 3
This cartoon goes out to Dede Scozzafava, NY-23rd District, and all the other reasonable, ideologically impure Republicans who will be Tea Bagged out of the party.
Liftoff
- November
- 1
I wish this wasn’t true. The cash for clunkers and first time home buyer credits appear to have enticed people who were on the fence to buy homes and cars, and the “growth” numbers for the third quarter reflected that – But it can’t possibly make up for massive job losses (which is why [...]
Big Brother
- October
- 29
Many apologies, friends – All my cartoons have been embargoed this week due to a lack of space on our editorial page. The editorial board has been writing candidate endorsements, and well, I can’t take it anymore. So here’s a sneak peek at tomorrow’s deeply ironic cartoon for my close inner circle of blog readers. [...]
Decoding
- October
- 26
For the heaving masses of my blog readers that might not be aware of a big local issue – There was a recent fair housing settlement reached by the Feds with Westchester County, considered by many to be an important marker post in the post civil-rights act era. Surface racial tolerance is fairly advanced around [...]
