KEABLES FORTNIGHT
January 24 - February 4, 2011

David Horsey’s cartoons, columns and multimedia reporting can be accessed most easily at the Hearst web site, www.davidhorsey.com

David Horsey is Hearst Newspapers’ two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist, He is also a contributing commentator for MSNBC.com.

Based at Hearst Seattle Media/seattlepi.com, Horsey has gained national recognition through syndication to hundreds of newspapers. His journalism career has taken him to national political party conventions, presidential primaries, the Olympics, the Super Bowl and on assignments in Europe, Japan, Mexico and Washington, D.C.

Horsey won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1999 and 2003 and was a finalist for the prize in 1987. In 1998, he received the National Press Foundation's Berryman Award for Cartoonist of the Year. A recipient of numerous other national and regional awards for both cartooning and writing, Horsey most recently took first place in Special Topic Column Writing in the 2009 Best of the West Journalism Competition for coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign.

Horsey received a BA in Communications from the University of Washington where he was editor of the student newspaper, The Daily. As a Rotary Foundation Scholar, Horsey earned an MA in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury (U.K.). In 2004, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Seattle University.

In 2000-2001, he served as president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

Horsey has published six collections of his work, Horsey's Rude Awakenings (1981), Horsey's Greatest Hits of the '8Os (1989), The Fall of Man (1994), One Man Show (1999), From Hanging Chad to Baghdad (2003) and Draw Quick, Shoot Straight (2007).