Finalist: Marty Two Bulls Sr., freelance cartoonist
Nominated Work
February 21, 2020
May 1, 2020
May 29, 2020
June 6, 2020
June 19, 2020
July 3, 2020
July 13, 2020
July 17, 2020
August 14, 2020
September 11, 2020
October 2, 2020
October 30, 2020
November 20, 2020
November 27, 2020
December 4, 2020
Biography
Marty Two Bulls Sr. is a member of the Oglala Lakota (our enemies call us the Sioux), from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He spent his childhood in Rapid City, S.D. It was at his high school newspaper (the Central High’s Pine Needle ‘79-‘81) that Two Bulls first started drawing editorial cartoons.
Marty studied commercial art at the Colorado Institute of Art. Two Bulls worked television, commercial printing, and newspapers. He would become the graphics editor at the Rapid City Journal and later The Sioux Falls Argus Leader. Leaving newspapers he returned to college to finish his BFA degree at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, N.M.
His work appears in the Lakota Times serving the Pine Ridge Reservation. His work focuses on issues of political interest to Native American peoples who have been historically persecuted and marginalized by the dominant culture, which has reduced them to a minority in their own lands.
Two Bulls embraced a growing readership of non-Natives cultivated through social media, in the hope that one Lakota man’s point of view will bring a better understanding and support for issues that affect Native American Indians.
Marty currently works as a freelance artist, graphic designer and political cartoonist.