Investor's Business Daily, by Michael Ramirez
Richard Oppel, Pulitzer Board co-chair (left), presents the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning to Michael Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily.
Winning Work
Biography
EXPERIENCE
Investor's Business Daily, senior editor/editorial cartoonist, Editorial Pages, 2006-current.
Copley News Service, internationally syndicated editorial cartoonist, 1989-current.
Los Angeles Times, editorial cartoonist, Editorial Pages, 1997-2005.
Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, editorial cartoonist, Editorial Pages, 1989-1997.
Daily Sun/Post, San Clemente, CA, editorial cartoonist, Editorial Pages, 1983-1990.
Global Express Travel Inc., Vice President, Los Angeles/San Francisco, CA, 1985-1989.
EDUCATION
University of California at Irvine, 1984. Bachelors degree.
PERSONAL
Born in Tokyo, Japan on May 11, 1961.
Resides in south Orange County, California.
Single
AWARDS
Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning.
2006 National Journalism Award Winner.
2004 Lincoln Fellow, Claremont Institute.
Honorary member of Pi Sigma Alpha, National Political Science Honor Society.
UCI Medal Recipient, University of California, Irvine. The university's highest honor.
Winner of the 1995 and 1997 Sigma Delta Chi, Society of Professional Journalism Award.
National Headliner Award Winner.
Recipient of several journalism awards and an illustrator of several books.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Treasurer, NCS Foundation, National Cartoonist Society 2006-current.
President, Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, 1997-1998.
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez is a Senior Editor and the Editorial Cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily. Ramirez combines an encyclopedic knowledge pf the news with a captivating drawing style to create consistently outstanding cartoons. "Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative," he says. "They should stir passions and deep emotions." Ramirez says, "Editorial cartoon should be the catalyst for thought and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment itself."
A regular contributor to USA Today and a regular guest on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS Television, Michael Ramirez's work is seen world-wide with a distribution of over four hundred and fifty newspapers and magazines through Copley News Service. He has been on CNN, CNN International, BBC Television, and BBC Radio and is a highly acclaimed international speaker. His work is reprinted in such publications as The New York Times, the New York Post, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, US News and World Report, and is featured on the websites of Townhall.com and DennisMillerRadio.com.
Michael Ramirez cartoons appear daily on the pages of Investor's Business Daily and in color at IBDeditorials.com/cartoons.