Edmund S. Valtman
Edmund Siegfried Valtman (May 31, 1914 – January 12, 2005) was an
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
.
Early life
Born in
displaced persons camp in Germany, which was still under the control of Allied occupation forces. They emigrated to the United States in 1949,[2] first to New Jersey and then to Hartford, Connecticut.[1][3]
Career
Once in the US, Valtman worked for communist leaders like Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his August 31, 1961 cartoon. It showed Fidel Castro leading a shackled, beaten-down man representing Cuba and advising Brazil "What You Need, Man, Is a Revolution Like Mine!"[2][4][5]
Valtman died in a Bloomfield, Connecticut retirement home.[2]
References
- ^ Newspapers.com.
- ^ Newspapers.com.
- ISBN 978-3-598-30183-4.
- ^ Charles, Holden, PhD. "Cold War Wrestling Match." Teachinghistory.org. Accessed 3 July 2011.
- ^ "Edmund Valtman: The Cartoonist Who Came in From the Cold (Library of Congress - Swann Foundation)". www.loc.gov. Retrieved May 25, 2023.
External links
Media related to Edmund S. Valtman at Wikimedia Commons
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