Congratulations to Walt Handelsman, who yesterday won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. In this Editor and Publisher story, Handelsman says it was his forays into animation that impressed the Pulitzer powers that be:
“I submitted 10 still cartoons and 10 animations,” said the Newsday of Melville, N.Y., staffer, adding that “the judges mentioned the animation” when they praised his 2006 portfolio of work.
Handelsman taught himself animation starting in November 2005 and then had the first of his many animations posted on Newsday.com in February 2006. “I worked so hard on those things,” said the cartoonist, when reached this afternoon by E&P.
This is the second Pulitzer for Handelsman, who won in 1997 when he was at the Times-Picuyne in New Orleans. You can see Newsday’s coverage of the story here. Daryl Cagle has a collection of his cartoons up here, and you can see some of his animations over here.
