Pulitzer-winning cartoonist to be hosted by WICA

Published 1:30 am Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts is welcoming back acclaimed editorial cartoonist David Horsey 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3 .

Robert Merry joins Horsey in a “show-and-tell” session in which the editorial cartoonist will demonstrate his drawing and satirical skills while also talking about his life, career, and views on the state of American politics, according to a press release.

Horsey served as interviewer last year when Merry, the regular host for WICA’s political conversation series, became the interview subject in a kind of role reversal.

For this presentation, Merry will revert to his regular role, and Horsey will be the interviewee.

Horsey, who grew up in Seattle, demonstrated his interest in editorial cartooning while still in high school, producing editorial satire for Ingraham High’s student newspaper, The Cascade. He quickly became the top cartoonist as a freshman at the University of Washington Daily, generating enough acclaim to make him the first cartoonist in Daily history to become the campus paper’s editor.

After graduating in 1976, he was a reporter at the Bellevue Journal-American but soon was recruited as the lead cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a position he held for 32 years. He also has appeared in many newspapers across the country through syndication. He has received two Pulitzer Prizes, in 1999 and 2003, and also received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for cartoons related to social justice issues.

Horsey’s work remains syndicated, and he draws frequently for the Seattle Times.

• All seats are $25. Piano Bar opens one hour before each event. Tickets are available at the WICA Box Office by calling 360-221-8268 or online at https://tickets.wicaonline.org