Boob The Builder
- October
- 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
Guest Appearance
- October
- 14
I’m posting this as my erstwhile friend and cartoonist-in-arms, Matt Bors, called me Saturday night and asked if I could scribble a caricature of myself for his cartoon. He also fearlessly hit up our mutual friends Ted Rall, Jack Ohman and Joel Pett and managed to draw a cartoon about the object of cartoonists’ [...]
Welcome Silence
- October
- 13
I came up with this idea after reading the breathless and amusing comments from this blog’s loyal right-wing peanut gallery in response to my previous cartoon.
The Road
- October
- 9
I’m kind of thinking this road is more Cormac McCarthy than Jack Kerouac. While I am posting a cartoon on our war strategy in Afghanistan that I did last night, I can’t help but see the irony in the surprise awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama this morning. I must confess I [...]
Honestly
- October
- 6
I confess this cartoon is a tad formulaic in its presentation, but I couldn’t for the life of me think of a better way to present my point. I’m sure I could have metaphored up or done something with labeled animals or something, but not on a Monday at 4:45PM.
