Meet Featured ToonsWare Cartoonist: David Horsey

David Horsey is the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s two-time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist.

Horsey entered journalism as a political reporter. His multi-faceted career has taken him to national political party conventions, presidential primaries, the Olympics, the Super Bowl and on assignments in Europe, Japan and Mexico. Horsey also spent a year working at the Hearst Newspapers Washington Bureau.

Horsey received a B.A. in communications from the University of Washington. In 1986, as a Rotary Foundation Scholar, Horsey earned an M.A. in international relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury (U.K.). Seattle University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2004.

In addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1999 and 2003, Horsey was recipient of the National Press Foundation’s 1998 Berryman Award for cartoonist of the year. The Society of Professional Journalists has given Horsey a total of 16 first-place regional awards for cartooning, governmental reporting and spot news reporting, as well as the 1999 Susan Hutchison Bosch Award for outstanding achievement in journalism.

Horsey took first place in the 1994 Best of the West journalism competition and, in 1995, he was the first cartoonist to win the Environmental Media Award. In 1991 and again in 2005, he received a Global Media Award from the Population Institute.

Horsey has published five collections of his professional work, “Horsey’s Rude Awakenings” (1981), “Horsey’s Greatest Hits of the ’80s” (1989), “The Fall of Man” (1994), “One Man Show” (1999) and “From Hanging Chad to Baghdad” (2003). A sixth collection will be published in the fall of 2007.

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