Political Cartooning and Satire in the Digital Age
Ted Rall is the first American political cartoonist to break out of the underground weekly newspaper scene into major mainstream newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, and the Los Angeles Times. He is also an award-winning author and columnist whose works include groundbreaking journalism from Afghanistan and Central Asia, political polemics, and seminal graphic novels.
Rall won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for his cartoons in 1995 and 2000. In 1996 he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. In 2011 Rall won the Alternative Weeklies Award and was a finalist in the Scripps-Howard Journalism Awards for the daily cartoon blog he filed from the front lines of the war in Afghanistan. In 2008-09 he was elected President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoons, the first and only of his generation of "young Turk" alternative cartoonists to be chosen by his colleagues for the position.
Rall is the editor-in-chief of SkewedNews.net, as well as an author, columnist and war correspondent. He is a former staff editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times. His most recent books are Snowden and After We Kill You, We Will We Welcome You Back as Honored Guests.
Mr. Rall's Athenaeum talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Public Writing and Discourse.
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