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Congratulations to Mike Ramirez

April 8th, 2008
Author Chris Mautner

12/17/07 cartoon

… who won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. The Daily Cartoonist has the link round-up. You can see a sampling of Ramirez’s work here.

Note that Funky Winkerbean cartoonist Tom Batiuk was a finalist as well.

 

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9 Responses to “Congratulations to Mike Ramirez”
  1. Dave Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 10:51 am

    Well, I guess this must be based solely off of illustration skills, because the content of Ramirez’s work is frankly pretty reprehensible. I like how they conveniently left out most of his pro-torture “LIBERALS LOVE TERRORISTS MORE THAN FREEDOM” cartoons in the Pulitzer gallery.

  2. Fiat Lux Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 11:41 am

    Dave, what’s the problem? Upset that a leftist hack didn’t win?

  3. Dave Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    No, more disppointed that they couldn’t reward anything more insightful than a bunch of cliched conservative strawmen. But hey, torture sure is awesome, illegal wiretapping is the bees knees, and the only reason I don’t like it is because I want to get gay married to Obama Bin Laden in LIEberal Taxachusetts.

  4. Chris Mautner Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    I’m about a million miles away from Ramirez politically and I think he’s a kick-ass cartoonist and am really happy he won.

  5. Fiat Lux Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    Nice list of cliched leftist strawmen, Dave. Tough to have an original thought outside of your DU, HuffPo and Kos echo chambers, huh?

  6. Dave Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    Sorry, I’m just trying to mirror the sophisticated and nuanced discourse of political cartooning.

  7. Fiat Lux Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    Stirring up the pot is what political cartoonists have done since the days of James Gillray lampooning King George III. If everyone agrees with their POV, they aren’t doing their jobs very well. :)

  8. Rob Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

    The problem with Ramirez isn’t that he’s a conservative. It’s that his cartoons are simple and have no real meaning behind what is shown. There is no subtext, irony, or deeper level to his work. He’s a good illustrator, but that’s about it.

  9. Fiat Lux Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 5:49 pm

    Rob, the same can be said for other Pulitzer-winning cartoonists such as Jules Feiffer, etc. It’s all subjective, in the end.

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