The earliest editorial cartoonist in my memory was Paul Conrad who skewered President Dwight Eisenhower in the Denver Fishwrap (afternoon version). Conrad portrayed Ike as an addled Mr. Clean; a bald guy with his eyes rattling around in his head. Conrad left Denver at about the same time as I did (1964). He moved on to the LA Fishwrap and won two additional Pulitzer Prizes. Conrad's a geezer-cartoonist now, but he hasn't lost his bite. Nor has he lost sight of the fact that the Idiot in Chief should be be removed from office through impeachment. Dennis the Menace (Kucinich) has tried to do the right thing, but another She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — will have none of it. Rather than end our long national nightmare, Speaker Pelosi wants to keep The Dubster in office so that the Donkeys will be able to run against another Bush presidency even though the Dumbo candidate is The Geezer. If this is (fair & balanced) political cynicism, so be it.
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[Paul Conrad started cartooning at the University of Iowa for the Daily Iowan. After receiving his B.A. in art in 1950, he worked for the Denver Post, where he spent 14 years before joining the Los Angeles Times.
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Conrad, one of the most distinguished political cartoonists in the world, was chief editorial cartoonist of the Los Angeles Times from 1964 to 1993. His trenchant political observations appear in newspapers nationwide and abroad, and are syndicated four times a week by Tribune Media Services.
In addition to three Pulitzers (1984, 1971 and 1964), Conrad has won two Overseas Press Club awards (1981 and 1970). In 1997, the Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi (SDX) honored him with his seventh Distinguished Service Award for Editorial Cartooning, making him the only journalist to win that many SDX awards in any category since the annual competition began in 1932 (he also won in 1988, 1982, 1981, 1971, 1969 and 1963).
Paul Conrad's favorite distinction: His 1973 inclusion on Richard Nixon's Enemies List.
Paul Conrad's favorite irony: Holding the Richard M. Nixon Chair at Whittier (Calif.) College (1977-78).]
Copyright © 2008 Paul Conrad
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