Vaughn Shoemaker

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Vaughn Richard Shoemaker (August 11, 1902 Chicago, Illinois – August 18, 1991 Carol Stream, Illinois) was an American editorial cartoonist. He won the 1938 and 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and created the character John Q. Public.

Shoemaker started his career at the Chicago Daily News and spent 22 years there. His 1938 Pulitzer cartoon for the paper was "The Road Back", featuring a World War I soldier marching back to war. The 1947 winning cartoon for the paper was "Still Racing His Shadow", featuring "new wage demands" of workers trying to outrun his shadow "cost of living". He went on to work for the New York Herald Tribune, the Chicago American, and Chicago Today. By his 1972 retirement he had drawn over 14,000 cartoons.

References

"Vaughn Shoemaker; Created John Q. Public". New York Times. August 22, 1991. Retrieved April 5, 2011.

v t e Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1922–1950)

Rollin Kirby (1922) Jay Norwood Darling (1924) Rollin Kirby (1925) D. R. Fitzpatrick (1926) Nelson Harding (1927) Nelson Harding (1928) Rollin Kirby (1929) Charles R. Macauley (1930) Edmund Duffy (1931) John T. McCutcheon (1932) H. M. Talburt (1933) Edmund Duffy (1934) Ross A. Lewis (1935) C. D. Batchelor (1937) Vaughn Shoemaker (1938) Charles G. Werner (1939) Edmund Duffy (1940) Jacob Burck (1941) Herbert Lawrence Block (1942) Jay Norwood Darling (1943) Clifford K. Berryman (1944) Sergeant Bill Mauldin (1945) Bruce Alexander Russell (1946) Vaughn Shoemaker (1947) Reuben L. Goldberg (1948) Lute Pease (1949) James T. Berryman (1950)

Complete list (1922–1950) (1951–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025)

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Name	Shoemaker, Vaughn
Alternative names
Short description	Editorial cartoonist
Date of birth	August 11, 1902
Place of birth	Chicago, Illinois
Date of death	August 18, 1991
Place of death

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