Matt Wuerker wins 2012 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning
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Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist for Politico, has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning
. Matt was a finalist in 2009 and 2010 for the Pulitzer and a past recipient of Herblock Prize.
Judges note his award was given “for his consistently fresh, funny cartoons, especially memorable for lampooning the partisan conflict that engulfed Washington.”
Finalists this year included Matt Bors (syndicated by Universal Uclick) “for his pungent work outside the traditional style of American cartooning” and Jack Ohman (The Oregonian) “for his clever daily cartoons and a distinctive Sunday panel on local issues in which his reporting was as important as his artistic execution.”
Jury members this year were:
Froma Harrop, columnist and editorial writer, The Providence Journal/Creators Syndicate (chair)
Mark Fiore, political cartoonist/political animator, SFGate.com/self-syndicated
Kevin Kallaugher, editorial cartoonist, The Economist
Chris Lamb, professor of communication, College of Charleston, SC
John Smalley, editor, Wisconsin State Journal, Madison
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