Coming to the Defense of Rush Limbaugh (Syndicated Newspaper Cartoon Smears Rush as Klansman)

Rob Rogers, Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist

Syndicated by United Feature Syndicate, his work regularly appears in (LEFT-WING publications) The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and Newsweek. Rogers' cartoon "The Gingrich Who Stole Christmas" was the cover for Newsweek's 1994 year-end issue.

Lalo Alcaraz (born Eduardo López Alcaraz, 1964) is a Mexican-American cartoonist and multimedia humorist now best known for his daily syndicated comic strip La Cucaracha. Alcaraz was born in the San Diego.

Comics by Alcaraz have appeared in English- and Spanish-language publications including The New York Times, The Village Voice, and The Los Angeles Times. Since 1992 he has drawn a panel for the LA Weekly of Los Angeles. In late 2002, La Cucaracha debuted in daily newspapers nationwide.

He attended San Diego State University, where he graduated with a degree in art. He then earned a master's degree in architecture from UC Berkeley.

This stuff has just gotten way over the top.

Something needs to be done.

Thanks for the libloon bios. I’ve posted all 5 of them in my cartoon threrads, but not very often. Here’s the missing bio:

STEVE BENSON BIOGRAPHY
Part I

When Steve Benson was a young boy producing crayon doodlings that eventually led him into a career as a professional editorial cartoonist, his mother gave him some advice.

“Stephen,” she said, “You can catch a lot more flies with honey than you can with vinegar.”

Steve thought about that for a moment, then replied, “Yeah, Mom, but who wants a lot of flies?”

Steve has been flying in the face of convention ever since.

One of his favorite sayings comes from Mark Twain, who observed: “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as much as you please.”

From behind his drawing board at The Arizona Republic, editorial “harpoonist” Steve Benson regularly lobs his ink bottle grenades, drawing beads on rascals in high places, as well as drawing fire. Indeed, Steve’s work proves the old adage, “A picture is worth a thousand phone calls.”

Following a cartoon barb at then-Phoenix mayor Paul Johnson, the city leader wrote Steve: “Your editorial cartoon was rude, crude, outrageous, inaccurate and poorly drawn. Could I have it for my office?”

Responding to a cartoon drawn at his expense, Arizona’s late Senator Barry Goldwater penned the cartoonist the following note: “There are—and have been—good Bensons. You ain’t.”

In 1993, Steve won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Prior to winning that award, he held the distinction of being the contest’s most nominated loser.

His cartoons have also earned him a National Headliner Award, an Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence, a Rocky Mountain Emmy, a place Who’s Who in the West, and several Best of the West and Arizona Press Club Awards.

He was a 2002 recipient of the American Civil Liberties Union “Practitioner of the First Amendment Award,” given him for having “taken on John Ashcroft, Jerry Falwell, President Bush and anyone else who has sought to denigrate or to deprive us of liberties we are guaranteed under the Bill of Rights.”

However, Steve says his proudest achievement was receiving “The Parched Cow Skull Award” from the Arizona Office of Tourism for “the least positive contribution” to the snowbird industry.

Steve’s work has been a regular cause of morning upset and/or delight around the country’s breakfast tables for 20 years. His cartoons are nationally distributed in over 100 newspapers by United Feature Syndicate have appeared in Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, The New York Times, The Washington Post, on CNN, MSNBC, ABC’s Nightline, CBS’s 60 Minutes, the PBS MacNeil-Lehrer Report, as well as in millions of readers’ wastebaskets.

Steve is past-president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. His Fort Wayne, Indiana, high school class voted him as the student most likely to go into politics. Steve instead chose a career going after politicians.

Steve is a native of Sacramento, CA, an Eagle Scout and a 1979 alumnus of Brigham Young University, where he graduated magnum cum loudest.

He is also a proud graduate of the famous “Draw-This-Dog-on-the-Back-of-the-Matchbook Cover” correspondence Art Instruction Schools of Minneapolis, MN.

Steve is the author of five books of his editorial cartoons. He tells of the time a friend told him he had bought one of his collections, then put it on the dashboard of his car while he did some shopping. When his friend came outside, he discovered a huge hole in his windshield. Where the copy of Steve’s book had been, now there were two copies of Steve’s book.

He has been married to the same woman, Mary Ann Christensen of Preston, Idaho, since 1977 and resides in Gilbert, Arizona. They have four children, all of whom live under assumed names.

When not answering hate mail, Steve has spent his spare time serving as a crosswalk guard at his daughter’s junior high school, where he was run over several times by drivers who recognized him.

In addition, Steve spends weekends patrolling his community as a fully-sworn police officer reserve. When pulling over motorists who ask him what they’ve done wrong, this “coptoonist” has been tempted to reply, “Do I have to draw you a picture?”

Steve also cares for a small home zoo of some 40 animals (not counting his children), that includes ferrets, iguanas, tortoises, snakes, rabbits, dogs, cats, parrots, cockatiels, doves, finches, parakeets, a macaw—but no partridge in a pear tree.

He says working with animals helps him better understand lower forms of life—like politicians and the clergy.

But enough. Steve needs no further introduction. He probably knows who he is.

Steve Benson

is it my imagination or does #24 have rather large lips ???

must be pokin fun at collagen injections...

OTOH, that’s from a Spanish cartoonist & occasionally they feud with the blacks... ;-)

This stinking cartoonist reads Free Republic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2360967/posts?page=20#20