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The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Editorial Cartooning

POLITICO, by Matt Wuerker

For his consistently fresh, funny cartoons, especially memorable for lampooning the partisan conflict that engulfed Washington.
Gregory Moore and Mat Wuerker

Gregory Moore (left), co-chair of The Pulitzer Prize Board, presents the 2012 Editorial Cartooning Prize to Matt Wuerker of POLITICO.

Winning Work

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, January 31, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, June 22, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, April 13, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, January 20, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, March 17, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, April 11, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, July 6, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, September 20, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, April 12, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, June 20, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, September 15, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, September 7, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, March 10, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, July 18, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, September 27, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, July 26, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, November 23, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, December 21, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, October 11, 2011)

(Matt Wuerker, POLITICO, November 7, 2011)

Biography

Matt Wuerker is the staff cartoonist for POLITICO. Part of the team that launched POLITICO in 2006, he provides editorial cartoons, illustrations, caricatures and Web animations for both the print and Web platforms of the publication.

Over the past 25 years, Matt’s cartoons have been used widely in publications that range from dailies like the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor to magazines such as Newsweek, Timeand The Smithsonian — to name a few.

He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 2009 and again in 2010. In 2010 he was awarded the Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress and the National Press Foundation’s Berryman Award.

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Editorial Cartooning in 2012:

Jack Ohman

For his clever daily cartoons and a distinctive Sunday panel on local issues in which his reporting was as important as his artistic execution.

Matt Bors

For his pungent work outside the traditional style of American cartooning.

The Jury

Froma Harrop(chair)

columnist and editorial writer 3

Mark Fiore*

political cartoonist/political animator

Kevin Kallaugher

editorial cartoonist

Chris Lamb

professor of communication

John Smalley

editor

Winners in Editorial Cartooning

2011

Mike Keefe

For his widely ranging cartoons that employ a loose, expressive style to send strong, witty messages.
2009

Steve Breen

For his agile use of a classic style to produce wide ranging cartoons that engage readers with power, clarity and humor.
2008

Michael Ramirez

For his provocative cartoons that rely on originality, humor and detailed artistry.
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2012 Prize Winners

History

Manning Marable

An exploration of the legendary life and provocative views of one of the most significant African-Americans in U.S. history, a work that separates fact from fiction and blends the heroic and tragic.
Biography

John Lewis Gaddis

An engaging portrait of a globetrotting diplomat whose complicated life was interwoven with the Cold War and America's emergence as the world's dominant power.
Poetry

Tracy K. Smith

A collection of bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them to an authentic mix of joy and pain.
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