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Walt Handelsman (born December 3, 1956 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a Pulitzer Prize winning and nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist for Newsday. He joined the paper in February 2001.
Biography
Walt Handelsman graduated from the University of Cincinnati. He began his professional career at a chain of 13 Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C., suburban weeklies from 1982-1985, followed by positions at The Scranton Times of Scranton, Pennsylvania, from 1985-1989, and The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1989 to 2001, whereupon he joined Newsday, based on Long Island, New York. As of 2008, his editorial cartoons are published in more than 250 newspapers in the U.S. and internationally.
He is the author of seven collections of his editorial cartoons as well as a children's book published in 1995.
Awards
Handelsman has won many local and national awards for cartooning excellence, including two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Headliner Awards, the Society of Professional Journalists Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and The Scripps Howard National Journalism award.
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| Preceded by Mike Luckovich |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning 2007 |
Succeeded by Michael Ramirez |
| Preceded by Jim Morin |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning 1997 |
Succeeded by Stephen P. Breen |
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