David Horsey (born 1951) is an American

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ist and commentator. His cartoons appeared in the ''

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'' from 1979 until December 2011 and in the ''

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'' since that time. His cartoons are syndicated to newspapers nationwide by

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. He won the

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in 1999 and 2003.

Life and career

Horsey was born in

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and moved to

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at age 3. He began working as a cartoonist in the ''Cascade'', the school newspaper at Ingraham High School. He was a French horn player in the Seattle Youth Symphony. He attended the

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, where, as a

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, he became the editorial cartoonist of the student newspaper '' The Daily''. He went on to become the first editorial cartoonist to be chosen as editor-in-chief of ''The Daily''. He graduated in 1976 with a degree in

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. Horsey's first job was as a

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for the ''Bellevue Journal-American'', but in 1979 he was hired to be the editorial cartoonist of the ''Post-Intelligencer.'' In 1986, he earned a

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from the

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. In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate degree from

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. At the end of 2011, he left the ''Post-Intelligencer'' and went to work for the ''Los Angeles Times'', where he remained until January 2018. His work then appeared in the ''

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'' until July 2018. He currently works for the Tribune Content Agency. Horsey has been recognized for his work with the

, first in 1999, when many of his cartoons focused on the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and in 2003, when he lampooned the Bush administration. In 2014, he was again a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and also received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for his cartoons related to social justice issues.

Collections

* ''Politics and Other Perversions: A Book of Political Cartoons by Dave Horsey'' (Shambala Publications Group, Seattle 1974) * ''Horsey's Rude Awakenings'' (Madrona Publishers, Seattle 1981) * ''Horsey's Greatest Hits of the '80s'' (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle 1989) * ''The Fall of Man'' (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle 1994) * ''One Man Show'' (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle 1999) * ''From Hanging Chad to Baghdad'' (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle 2003) * ''Draw Quick, Shoot Straight'' (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle 2007) * ''Refuge of Scoundrels'' (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013)

Sarah Huckabee apology

In November 2017, Horsey wrote an entry for his thrice-weekly column
''Top of the Ticket''
in the ''

'' titled
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the right mouthpiece for a truth-twisting president
and was criticized shortly thereafter for his disparaging remarks about the appearance of Donald Trump's press secretary,

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. Horsey's column included criticisms of her looks and attire. After being criticized for his comments, Horsey updated his column with an apology and removed the comments about Huckabee.

References

External links

* David Horsey'
personal website at the Internet Archive
* David Horsey'
personal Twitter page

David Horsey's page
at ''

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''
David Horsey's page
at the

1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoons

2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoons
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