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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, by David Horsey

For his perceptive cartoons executed with a distinctive style and sense of humor.
Lee Bollinger and David Horsey

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents David Horsey with the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning.

 

Winning Work

(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - August 18, 2002)

 
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - September 8, 2002)
 
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - March 3, 2002)
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - September 29, 2002)
 
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - April 8, 2002)

(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - April 25, 2002)

(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - March 27, 2002)
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - April 23, 2002)
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - August 20, 2002)
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - August 19, 2002)
 
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - August 22, 2002)
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - January 16, 2002)
 
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - May 19, 2002)
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - February 13, 2002)
 
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - August 11, 2002)
 
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - June 9, 2002)
 
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - March 20, 2002)
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - September 19, 2002)
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - November 10, 2002)
 
(David Horsey/The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - May 9, 2002)

Biography

David Horsey is the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist. Tribune Media Services syndicates his work to 200 newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, theChicago Tribune and USA Today.

In addition to winning the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, Horsey was recipient of the National Press Foudnation's 1998 Berryman Award for Cartoonist of the Year.

Horsey's P-I career has taken him to national political party conventions, presidential primaries, international conferences, the Olympics, Japan and many countries in Europe. Horsey also spent a year at the Hearst Newspapers Washington Bureau where he took a close look at national politics for the P-I editorial page.

Horsey received a BA in Communications from the University of Washington where he was editor of the student newspaper, The Daily. As a Rotary Foundation Scholar, Horsey earned an MA in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury (U.K.). He has been named as one of the 100 most notable alumni of the University of Washington in the 20th Century and is a member of the advisory board for the UW College of Arts and Sciences.

The Society of Professional Journalists has given Horsey a total of 13 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, he received a Global Media Award from the Population Institute.

In 2000-2001, he served as president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

Horsey has published four collections of his professional work, Horsey's Rude Awakenings (1981), Horsey's Greatest Hits of the '8Os (1989), The Fall of Man (1994), and One Man Show (1999). In 1992, he co-edited an anthology,Cartooning AIDS Around the World. He also has two novels in the works.

Horsey resides in Seattle with his wife, Nole Ann, and two children, Darielle and Daniel.

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Editorial Cartooning in 2003:

Clay Bennett

For his provocative portfolio of cartoons marked by clarity and simplicity.

Rex Babin

For his arresting cartoons on a broad range of subjects, drawn with simple eye-catching imagery.

The Jury

David Moats(chair )*

editorial page editor

Fred Fiske

senior writer

Froma Harrop

columnist and editorial board member

Bill Mitchell

online editor and marketing director

Joel Pett*

editorial cartoonist

Winners in Editorial Cartooning

2003 Prize Winners

Diana K. Sugg

For her absorbing, often poignant stories that illuminated complex medical issues through the lives of people.