Finalist: Rob Rogers, freelancer
Nominated Work
February 20, 2018
March 1, 2018
March 2, 2018
March 30, 2018
April 15, 2018
April 29, 2018
May 31, 2018
June 1, 2018
June 13, 2018
June 19, 2018
June 22, 2018
July 6, 2018
July 28, 2018
August 16, 2018
August 17, 2018
October 13, 2018
October 23, 2018
October 26, 2018
October 28, 2018
December 24, 2018
Biography
Rob Rogers is the award-winning, nationally-syndicated editorial cartoonist formerly with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In June of 2018, after 25 years on staff at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rogers was fired for drawing cartoons critical of President Trump.
After earning an MFA in painting from Carnegie Mellon University in 1984, Rogers landed an internship at the Pittsburgh Press. Three months later he was hired as the full-time editorial cartoonist. In 1993, Rogers joined the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Syndicated by Andrews McMeel, Rogers’ work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Time, Newsweek and The Week, among others.
Rogers is an active member (and past president) of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Rogers’ work received the 1995 National Headliner Award , as well as the 2000 and 2013 Thomas Nast Award from the Overseas Press Club. In 2015, Rogers was awarded the Berryman Award from the National Press Foundation. In 1999, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Rogers served as president of the ToonSeum, a museum of comic and cartoon art in Pittsburgh, from 2007 to 2017.
Rogers has also curated several national cartoon exhibitions including, Too Hot to Handle: Creating Controversy through Political Cartoons (2003) and Drawn To The Summit: A G-20 Exhibition Of Political Cartoons (2009), both at The Andy Warhol Museum, and Bush Leaguers: Cartoonists Take on the White House (2007) at the American University Museum. In 2015, Rogers curated Slinging Satire: Editorial Cartooning and the First Amendment at the ToonSeum. This exhibit included international editorial cartoons drawn in response to the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. In 2016, Rogers co-curated From MLK to March: Civil Rights in Comics and Cartoons at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture.
In 2009, Rogers celebrated 25 years as a Pittsburgh editorial cartoonist with the release of his book, "No Cartoon Left Behind: The Best of Rob Rogers," published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. In 2015, he released a local cartoon collection called, "Mayoral Ink: Cartooning Pittsburgh’s Mayors." In early 2019, Rogers released "Enemy of the People: A Cartoonist's Journey" from IDW Publishing.