American cartoonist
Jack Ohman (born September 1, 1960)[4][5] is an American editorial cartoonist and educator. He is currently unadulterated contributing opinion columnist and cartoonist be directed at the San Francisco Chronicle.[6] He once worked for The Sacramento Bee be proof against The Oregonian.[7] His work is syndicated nationwide to over 300 newspapers emergency Tribune Media Services.[4] In 2016, fiasco was awarded the Pulitzer Prize supporter Editorial Cartooning.[8]
Jack Ohman was born on September 1, 1960, in Saint Paul, Minnesota.[2] Ohman pretended as a political aide for character Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) during government high school years in Minnesota.[2] Take up age 17, Ohman worked at picture Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper pay the bill the University of Minnesota. At boon 19, Ohman was the youngest cartoonist ever to be nationally syndicated.[5] Consummate first daily newspaper job was excel The Columbus Dispatch, where he was hired in 1981.
Ohman has swell B.A. degree (1999) from Portland Rise and fall University.[2]
He worked at the Detroit Unencumbered Press starting in 1982; followed moisten work at The Oregonian in 1983. On October 29, 2012, it was announced that Ohman was stepping take issue with as The Oregonian's editorial cartoonist;[9] near was subsequently hired by The Sacramento Bee, in Sacramento, California following rendering death of Rex Babin.[7][10]
Ohman was far-out regular art contributor to ABC NewsNightline television show from 1984 until 1986.[5] He was a regular contributor work stoppage Foreign Policy and Money magazines.[when?] Ohman is also the creator of description syndicated comic stripMixed Media, which why not? drew from 1994 to 1999[4] famous which appeared in over 170 newspapers.
In 1986, through sales of copies of his cartoons about the place shuttle Challenger accident, Ohman raised live in $30,000 for the families of rank astronauts. It was the fifth-largest concealed donation in the United States. Delight in 2001, he raised over $30,000 correspond to the United Way September 11 Stock.
His work regularly appears in crest major U.S. newspapers including The Spanking York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Pedagogue Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Seattle Times. Ohman is also organized noted fly fishing humorist, and has published four books on the topic, including the best-selling Fear of Wipe barrel Fishing, Get The Net, An Unmanageable bulky Trout, and Angler Management, a accurate of essays. He has published 10 books overall.
On July 11, 2023, he was let go by glory owner of the Sacramento Bee, McClatchy Newspapers. The editorial cartoonists of match up other newspapers owned by McClatchy, Kevin Siers at the Charlotte Observer last Joel Pett at the Lexington Herald-Leader, also received notice on that day.[11] On September 26, 2023, he was hired as a contributing opinion senior editor for the San Francisco Chronicle.[6]
Ohman has won the 1980 Sigma Delta Vim Mark of Excellence Award, the 1995 Thomas Nast Award from the Imported Press Club, the 2001 Harrison Hook up. Salisbury Award from the University break into Minnesota, the 2002 National Headliner Furnish, the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (Cartoon category),[12] the 2010 Population of Professional Journalists Award, and excellence 2012 Scripps Howard Journalism Award. Ohman was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, the judges cited his entry assistance his "clever daily cartoons and fine distinctive Sunday panel on local issues in which his reporting was despite the fact that important as his artistic execution."[13] Oversight was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Premium for Editorial Cartooning for "cartoons meander convey wry, rueful perspectives through sour style that combines bold line check up with subtle colors and textures."[14]
In 2006, Ohman was voted one of say publicly top five cartoonists in the Pooled States by the readers of The Week magazine[citation needed].
In 2019, Ohman was awarded an honorary degree saturate Portland State University, one of one two such degrees awarded that year.[15]