“I believe a political cartoonist should ‘comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.’
I try to do it with humor, and I’m never more serious than when I’m joking.”
Stuart Carlson is an award-winning cartoonist who, as a toddler, began his career by drawing in lipstick on
the walls of his home. His art has improved since then and appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for
25 years, garnering local and national awards, including the best editorial cartoonist in the US by the
National Press Foundation. Carlson’s work is syndicated to about 35 newspapers nationally, and has
appeared in Time, Newsweek, the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Stuart Carlson
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