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Frederick Theodore Rall III (born August 26, 1963) is an American
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, syndicated
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, and author. His
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s often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format and frequently blend comic-strip and editorial-cartoon conventions. At their peak, Rall's cartoons appeared in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States. He was president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists from 2008 to 2009. Rall draws three editorial cartoons a week for syndication, draws illustrations on a freelance basis, writes a weekly syndicated column, and edits the Attitude series of alternative cartooning anthologies and spin-off collections by up-and-coming cartoonists. He writes and draws cartoons for the tech and politics news site founded by journalist Gina Smith, aNewDomain, and is the editor-in-chief of the satirical news website skewednews.net. Rall also writes and draws cartoons for Sputnik International, a
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platform established by the Russian government-owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya (Россия Сегодня—Russia Today). He is a graphic novelist and the author of non-fiction books about domestic and international current affairs. He also travels to and writes about Central Asia, a region he believes to be pivotal to U.S. foreign policy concerns. In November 2001 he went to Afghanistan as a war correspondent for ''
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'' and KFI Radio in Los Angeles. He returned to Afghanistan in August 2010, traveling independently and unembedded throughout the country, filing daily "cartoon blogs" by satellite.


Early life and education

Frederick Theodore Rall III was born in
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, in 1963, and raised in Kettering, Ohio, near
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. He graduated from Fairmont West High School, in 1981. From 1981 to 1984, Rall attended
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's engineering school, where he contributed cartoons to the campus newspapers, including the '' Columbia Daily Spectator'', ''Barnard Bulletin'', and the ''
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''. He failed to complete his studies in the engineering school, where he majored in applied physics and nuclear engineering, but returned to graduate several years later from Columbia's School of General Studies in 1991 with a bachelor of arts, with honors, in history.


Career

Rall says his drawing style was originally influenced by Mike Peters, the editorial cartoonist at his hometown paper, the ''Dayton Daily News''. Later influences included
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, Garry Trudeau, Charles M. Schulz, and
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. Rall's 1990s work focused on the issues and concerns surrounding twentysomethings and
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, terms coined in the late 1980s to describe people born from the early to mid 1960s to the mid 1980s. While living in San Francisco Rall met Dave Eggers, who hired him as a contributing editor and writer for '' Might magazine'', a publication Eggers edited and co-founded. Among other essays, Rall authored two seminal essays for ''Might'', "Confessions of an Investment Banker" and "College is for Suckers". He wrote op-ed columns for ''
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'', including "Why I Will Not Vote" (1994), which justified apathy among Generation Xers who saw neither Democrats nor Republicans responding to their concerns. In 1998 Rall published "Revenge of the Latchkey Kids", a compendium of essays and cartoons that criticized the Baby Boomer-dominated media for ignoring and ridiculing young adults and their achievements. Rall's cartoons have been handled by San Francisco Chronicle Features, no longer in business, and—since 1996—by Universal Press Syndicate. Rall's cartoons have appeared regularly in ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Fortune'' and '' Men's Health'' magazines, as well as '' Mad'' magazine (for which he also wrote) and were for several years the most reproduced cartoons in ''
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''. Rall began frequent travels to Central Asia in 1997, when he attempted to drive the
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from Beijing to Istanbul via China,
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,
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,
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, and
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as a staff writer for ''P.O.V.'' magazine. ''P.O.V.'' published his adventures as ''Silk Road to Ruin'', a title he used for his 2006 collection of essays and cartoons about Central Asia. Rall returned to the region for POV in 1999 to travel the
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from Kashgar, in western China, to Islamabad. Subsequent trips included two trips in 2000, "Stan Trek 2000"—in which Rall brought along 23 listeners to his radio show for a bus journey from Turkmenistan to Kyrgyzstan via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan—and a U.S. State Department-sponsored visit to Turkmenistan, where he met with Turkmen college students and dissidents to explain the nature of free press in a democracy. A 2002 assignment for ''Gear'' magazine to cover the world championships of buzkashi in
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was not published due to the magazine's going out of business, but turned up in an edited form in ''Silk Road to Ruin.'' He returned to Tajikistan,
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Province in western China and Pakistan during the summer of 2007. The '' Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists'' series of books is a series of anthologies of
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edited by Rall. Frustrated that cartoons prevalent in alternative weekly newspapers were being ignored in favor of mainstream and art comics, Rall edited the first "Attitude" anthology, ''Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists'', in 2002, with its mission to bring together cartoonists who were "too alternative for the mainstream and too mainstream for the alternative." ''Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists'' followed in 2004, and in 2006 ''Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists'' appeared. Each volume contains interviews with, cartoons by and personal ephemera related to 21 different cartoon creators. The first and second volumes emphasized political and humor cartoons; the third volume exclusively features web cartoonists. Rall also edited three cartoons collections by Andy Singer, Neil Swaab, and Stephanie McMillan under the name "Attitude Presents:". From 2006 to 2009, Rall was editor of Acquisitions and Development at the comic strip syndicate United Media. While there, he helped bring to syndication Keith Knight's '' The Knight Life'', Signe Wilkinson's ''
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'', Tak Toyoshima's '' Secret Asian Man'', Dan Thompson's '' Rip Haywire'', and Richard Stevens' '' Diesel Sweeties''.MacDonald, Heidi
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''The Beat'' (February 24, 2011).
Rall's work includes the book ''The Anti-American Manifesto'' ( Seven Stories Press), published in September 2010. His book, ''The Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt'' (Seven Stories Press) was released in July 2012.


Other media

Rall was a regular guest on '' Hannity & Colmes'', as well as NPR. He contributes a cartoon called "Left Coast" to the '' Pasadena Weekly.'' In February 2005, BBC television broadcast a 30-minute profile of Rall as part of their series ''Cartoonists on the Front Line.'' Rall maintains a blogKashmir Kashmir ( or ) is the Northwestern Indian subcontinent, northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term ''Kashmir'' denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir P ...
. In 2005 he had a weekend show on San Francisco's KIFR-FM. Rall has been a frequent guest on
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, the
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and Fox Radio.


Politics

In 2009 Rall called for
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to resign as President of the United States, because "the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama's inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes
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look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through." He endorsed Jill Stein in the 2016 presidential election. In December 2016, Rall presented what he called a "manifesto" to "topple Trumpism." Less than a year and a half later, however, he predicted "that Mr. Trump would not only finish his term but win re-election, due to the divisions within the Democratic Party." Rall is an atheist and writes some cartoons dealing with these views.


Controversies

In 1999, Rall wrote an article in ''
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'' accusing '' Maus'' creator
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of lacking talent and controlling who gets high-profile assignments from magazines such as ''
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'' through personal connections, including his wife, ''New Yorker'' art editor Françoise Mouly. In retaliation for Rall's piece, '' New York Press'' illustrator Danny Hellman sent two sets of e-mails under the name "Ted Rall's Balls" to at least 35 cartoonists and editors, including Rall's employers. After Rall tracked down Hellman's identity, Hellman ignored Rall's cease-and-desist letters. After several weeks, Rall filed a $1.5-million
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for
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per se, libel per quod, injurious falsehood, violation of
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, and
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. Rall's suit stated that Hellman was attempting to sabotage his career. Four of Rall's five claims were dismissed, leaving libel per se. The lawsuit remains unresolved. In a Rall cartoon from May 3, 2004, Pat Tillman (a former
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player who abandoned his NFL career to enlist in the United States Army Rangers and was killed in Afghanistan) is depicted asking an Army recruiter, "Never mind the fine print. Will I get to kill Arabs?" The narrator points out that he was killed and the reader is then given a choice: "idiot", "sap", or "hero". Later, after Tillman's anti–Iraq War sentiments and the friendly fire circumstances of his death became public, Rall wrote that he regretted making such sweeping assumptions about Tillman's motives, describing Tillman as "one hell of an interesting human being". A November 8, 2004, cartoon depicted mentally disabled children as classroom teachers in an attempt to make an analogy to American voters who reelected President
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, drawing complaints from advocates for the disabled and led to his cartoons being dropped from ''
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''s website. Rall responded in his
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saying: "I regret hurting people who I have nothing against. I do want to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, and I think I failed in that with this cartoon. Not to mention that the cartoon failed—too many people got bogged down in the analogy and the main point got lost." On October 22, 2007, Rall published a cartoon saying "Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared." That caused an uproar by military supporters both conservative and liberal alike. Rall is listed at #15 in Bernard Goldberg's book '' 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America'' as a "vicious, conspiracy-minded, hate-filled jerk". Rall perceived the listing as an honor, replying, "Not only am I grouped with many people whom I admire for their achievements and patriotism, I'm being demonized by McCarthyite thugs I despise." Rall solicited funds from readers and left-wing bloggers while considering whether to sue Ann Coulter for libel and slander for her (later self-described as "joking") statement that, "Iran is soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust. So far, only Ted Rall, Garry Trudeau, and ''The New York Times'' have made submissions." Coulter first made the remark at the 2006
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meeting in Washington, D.C., on February 10 and then printed it in her syndicated column the following week. By 18 days later, pledges totaled over $21,000. However, pledges are no longer being solicited, and in a December 27, 2006 blog entry, Rall posted an email that was sent to pledged contributors to the lawsuit, stating that his attorneys had determined, "The road ahead is too uncertain to justify spending thousands of dollars of pledges, not to mention my own money".


Dismissal from the ''Los Angeles Times''

In July 2015, the ''
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'' released a "note to readers" stating that Rall had been dropped from the paper because of allegations that he had recently lied about a 2001 encounter with the police."Editor's Note: a note to readers"
''
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'', July 28, 2015.
The
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(LAPD) claimed that Rall misrepresented the encounter in a May 2015 opinion blog post he wrote about enforcement of jaywalking laws in Los Angeles. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, whom Rall had repeatedly mocked in his cartoons for the ''LA Times'', provided a copy of an audio recording of the encounter (the location of the original microcassette, and whether it still exists, remains unknown) that the ''LA Times'' found to "raise serious questions about the accuracy of Rall's blog post". Rall stood by his version of the incident. Another version of the recording, which Rall posted online after having it restored by sound engineers, included sounds of bystanders talking. One person is heard saying "you need to take off the handcuffs." The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists issued a statement calling for an independent investigation of the tape. On August 19, the ''LA Times'' issued a lengthy statement reaffirming its claim that Rall's original blog post "did not meet its standards". In it, they reported they had the audio recording investigated by two audio and video forensics experts and it still did not support Rall's version of the event.


Lawsuit against the ''Los Angeles Times''

In March 2016, Rall filed suit against the ''Los Angeles Times'' for defamation of character and wrongful termination; in June 2017, the judge in the case dismissed claims against four individuals for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress; claims against the former and current ''LA Times'' corporate ownership remain.Judge tosses cartoonist's claims he was defamed by L.A. Times journalists and former publisher
by Marisa Gerber, at the
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; published June 21, 2017; retrieved June 22, 2017
Rall appealed the lower-court dismissal to the California Court of Appeals. On January 17, 2019, the Court of Appeals published an opinion affirming the dismissal. However, in April 2019 the California Supreme Court accepted Rall's Petition for review, which continues the case's appeal process. In September 2019, the California Supreme Court returned the case to the California Court of Appeals for review in light of its decision in ''Wilson v. Cable News Network, Inc''. (2019) 7 Cal. 5th 871 (''Wilson)''. On December 18, 2019, the California Court of Appeals again affirmed the trial court's orders dismissing Rall's claims.


Awards

* 1995: Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award * 1996: Finalist, Pulitzer Prize * 1997: Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Graphic Novel), for ''Real Americans Admit: The Worst Thing I've Ever Done!'' * 1997: First Prize, Deadline Club Award, Society of Professional Journalists * 2000: Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award * 2001: Amazon's Best Books of the Year, for ''2024: A Graphic Novel'' * 2002: Best Book of the Year,
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, for ''To Afghanistan and Bac'' * 2002: James Aronson Award for Social Justice Graphics * 2007: Second Prize, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Awards * 2007: Second Prize, Lambda Legal's "Life Without Fair Courts" cartoon contest * 2008: Ohioana Citation for Art and Journalism * 2010: Scripps Howard National Journalism Award, Finalist * 2011: First Prize, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Awards


Publications


Cartoon collections

*''Waking Up In America'' (St. Martin's Press, 1992), *''All The Rules Have Changed'' (Rip Off Press, 1995), *''Search and Destroy'' (Andrews McMeel 2001), *''America Gone Wild'' (Andrews McMeel, 2006),


Graphic novels

*''Real Americans Admit: The Worst Thing I've Ever Done!'' (NBM Publishing, 1996), *''My War With Brian'' (NBM, 1998), *''2024: A Graphic Novel'' (NBM, 2001), *''The Year of Loving Dangerously'' (NBM, 2009), artwork by Pablo G. Callejo, *''After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests'' (Hill and Wang, 2014) *''The Stringer'' (NBM, 2021)


Non-fiction

*''Revenge of the Latchkey Kids: An Illustrated Guide to Surviving the '90s and Beyond'' (Workman, 1998), essays and cartoons, *''Gas War: The Truth Behind the American Occupation of Afghanistan'' (NBM, 2002), prose non-fiction, *''To Afghanistan and Back'' (NBM, 2002), graphic travelogue, *''Wake Up, You're Liberal!: How We Can Take America Back from the Right'' (Soft Skull Press, 2004), prose non-fiction, *''Generalissimo El Busho: Essays and Cartoons on the Bush Years'' (NBM, 2004), essays and cartoons, *''Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?'' (NBM, 2006), graphic novellas and essays, *''The Anti-American Manifesto'' (Seven Stories Press, 2010), political polemic, *''The Book of Obama: How We Went From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt'' (Seven Stories Press, 2012), essays and cartoons, *''Snowden'' (Seven Stories Press, 2015), prose non-fiction, *''Bernie'' (Seven Stories Press, 2016), prose non-fiction, *''Trump: A Graphic Biography'' (Seven Stories Press, 2016), prose non-fiction, *''Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America'' (39 West Press, 2017), essays and cartoons, with Harmon Leon, *''Francis, the People's Pope'' (Seven Stories Press, 2018), prose non-fiction, *''Bernie: Updated 2020 Edition'' (Seven Stories Press, 2020), prose non-fiction, *''Political Suicide: The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party'' (Seven Stories Press, 2020), prose non-fiction,


''Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists'' anthologies

*'' Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists'' (NBM, 2002), *''Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists'' (NBM, 2004), *''Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists'' (NBM, 2006),


Other

*''Shiny Adidas Track Suits and the Death of Camp'' (1998), contains essays from Might Magazine, *''9-11: Emergency Relief'' (2001) 9/11 benefit anthology; contributor, *''Working For the Man'' (2003) William Messner-Loebs benefit anthology; contributor *''Masters of War: Militarism and Blowback in the Era of American Empire'' (2003), cartoon foreword, *''Talk to Her: Interviews with Kristine McKenna'' (2004), illustration of Joe Stummer, *''Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print'' (2004), edited by David Wallis, contains "Money Changes Everything" essay, *''The Disposable Male: Sex, Love, and Money'' (2006), by Michael Gilbert, includes cartoon, *''Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression'' (2007), edited by David Wallis, contains "Ronald Reagan airport" and "Gulf War Beach" cartoons, *''Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps'' (2012), by Greg Palast, contains 48-page comic insert "Tales From The Crypt of Democracy",


See also

* Matt Bors - another cartoonist who has collaborated with Rall * List of newspaper columnists


References


External links

*
Interview with Rall in ''Satya'' magazine from 2003Interview with Rall on bdtheque.com - 2008
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