Michael Ramirez is a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and senior editor and editorial cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily's, "Issues & Insights." His cartoons frequently feature a conservative political slant and are syndicated in more than 400 newspapers by Copley News Service.
Fast Facts:
- Born: May 11, 1961 in Tokyo, Japan
- Alma Mater: University of California, Irvine
- Worked as a cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times
- Ramirez is known for cartoons that support George W. Bush and the "war on terror"Asian Times: US cartoon no joke to Iranians (September 20, 2007)
- In 1994 Ramirez won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning and again for the same category in 2008
- In 1996, he won the H.L. Mencken Award for editorial cartooning
- In 2005, he won the National Journalism award for editorial cartooning
- Ramirez is a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute, a think tank in Claremont, California