Meet Featured ToonsWare Cartoonist: Dick Locher

Dick Locher’s ability to capture the absurdities of life through cartooning is known worldwide. His impact as a widely recognized editorial cartoonist and the creative writer and artist for the “Dick Tracy” comic strip is seen in the numerous awards he has received, including the Pulitzer Prize.

Locher established his reputation as one of the leading editorial cartoonists at the Chicago Tribune, where he has worked since 1972. His cartoons are nationally syndicated and have appeared in Life, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Playboy, The Congressional Record and hundreds of newspapers throughout the world. In 1983, Locher assumed the duty of illustrating the comic strip “Dick Tracy.” He became the writer of the strip in 2005. Both “Dick Tracy” and Locher’s editorial cartoons are syndicated by Tribune Media Services.

Locher was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. In 1986 he won the Worldwide Population Institute’s competition for Best Cartoonist, and in 1987 he received the prestigious John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Award. In 1985, 1990 and 1991 he won the Peter Lisagor Award for excellence in journalism, presented by the Headline Club of Sigma Delta Chi. In addition to the Pulitzer in 1983, Locher has garnered top honors from the Sigma Delta Chi/Society of Professional Journalists and received the U.S. Industrial Council’s Dragon Slayer Award and the Distinguished Health Journalism Award. He won first place in the Overseas Press Club competition four times. In 2006 Locher was awarded the National Cartoonist Society’s Silver T-Square Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cartooning.

Locher also has a number of books to his credit, including “Dick Locher Draws Fire,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Vote For Me,” “Where’s the None of the Above Button?” and “The Daze of Whine and Neurosis.” He has collaborated on several books, as well: “Flying Can Be Fun” with Michael Kilian and “The Dick Tracy Casebook” and “Dick Tracy’s Fiendish Foes” with Max Collins.

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