Mike Luckovich

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Mike Luckovich
BornMichael Edward Luckovich
(1960-01-28) January 28, 1960 (age 64)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Cartoonist
Notable works
Editorial cartoons
AwardsSee full list

Michael Edward Luckovich (

Pulitzer Prizes
.

Early life

Luckovich was born in

newspaper
while working as an insurance salesman.

Career

Luckovich began his career with

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
, which continues to today. In 2000, Luckovich started his comic strip "SuperZeros" about a pair of dim-witted superheroes. It was distributed by Tribune Media Service and lasted a year.

In a September 2001 interview, Luckovich commented on his style of cartooning and how it changed after the

9/11 terrorist attacks
:

Normally with my cartoons I try to use humor to get across my point. After Sept. 11th, you just couldn't use humor. The tragedy was so enormous, you couldn't be funny. It's almost like you have to come up with cartoons using a different part of your brain. I was just trying to come up with images that expressed the emotions that I was feeling and tried to focus in on different aspects of the tragedy that I thought were important.


In the same interview Luckovich cited Jeff MacNelly as his "biggest editorial cartoonist role model" and Mort Drucker as his "first hero".

Awards

While at the

National Journalism Awards, for Editorial Cartooning. In 2018, he received the Advancing American Democracy Award by the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site.[citation needed
]

Controversy

Luckovich attracted a great deal of backlash when the newspaper cartoonist drew a cartoon depicting Michael Jackson's death one day after his death. The comic strip illustrated the leaders Heaven and Hell flipping a coin to see where the late King of Pop would be after his demise. Many people, including Jackson's family, friends, and fans deemed the cartoon offensive.[5]

On December 3, 2019, Luckovich posted a cartoon on Twitter depicting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg defending racists, lying politicians, Nazis, and Russians. Some interpreted this as comparing Russians to Nazis and the KKK, while others noted Luckovich was simply referring to widespread criticism of Facebook for not having done enough to stop Russian Internet troll farms from using Facebook to interfere in US politics, including the 2016 presidential elections.[6]

Books

  • Lotsa Luckovich (Pocket, 1996)
  • Four More Wars! (ECW Press, 2006)
  • A Very Stable Genius! (ECW Press, 2018)

References

  1. ^ "Mike Luckovich Draws the News - Giddyup". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  2. ^ Caller Jaffe, Marcia (26 October 2018). "Don't take "A Very Stable Genius!" Too Seriously". Atlanta Jewish Times. Michael A. Morris. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
  3. ^ "The 1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Editorial Cartooning". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  4. ^ "2006 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  5. ^ "AJC's Mike Luckovich, On His Michael Jackson Cartoon". cnn.com. June 26, 2009.
  6. ^ "Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
  7. ^ "Q&A: Mike Luckovich talks about cartooning in the time of "A Very Stable Genius"". ARTS ATL. November 1, 2018.

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