| Mike Luckovich | |
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| Born | Michael Edward Luckovich January 28, 1960 Seattle, Washington |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | cartoonist |
| Notable works | Editorial cartoons |
Michael Edward Luckovich (born January 28, 1960,) is an editorial cartoonist who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1989. He is syndicated nationally to about 150 newspapers (as of October 2005[update]), through Creators Syndicate and is the 2006 winner of the Reuben, the National Cartoonists Society's top award for cartoonist of the year.
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He was born in Seattle, Washington, attended Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho before transferring to Sheldon High School in Eugene, Oregon and graduated in 1982 from the University of Washington with a degree in political science. For two years after graduation, Luckovich sold cartoons on a freelance basis to the Everett, Washington newspaper while working as an insurance salesman.
Luckovich began his career with The Greenville News in South Carolina in 1984, and moved to the New Orleans Times-Picayune later that year.
In 2000, Luckovich started his comic-strip "SuperZeros", about a pair of dim-witted superheros. It was distributed by Tribune Media Service and lasted a year.
In a September 2001 interview, Luckovich commented on his style of cartooning and how it changed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks:
In that same interview Luckovich cited Jeff MacNelly as his "biggest editorial cartoonist role model" and Mort Drucker as his "first hero."
He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize and 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. He also received the National Cartoonists Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 2001, with additional nominations for 1998 and 2002. He won the 2008 National Journalism Awards, for Editorial Cartooning.
Luckovich attracted a great deal of backlash when the newspaper cartoonist drew a cartoon depicting Michael Jackson's death one day after his passing. The comic strip illustrated the leaders Heaven and Hell flipping a coin to see where the late King of Pop would be after his demise. Many people, including Jackson's family, friends, and fans deemed the cartoon offensive.[1]
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