David Horsey

 

David Horsey is the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist. His work is distributed internationally by Tribune Media Services.

In addition to winning the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, Horsey was recipient of the National Press Foundation’s 1998 Berryman Award for Cartoonist of the Year. In 2000-2001, he served as president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

Horsey’s P-I career has taken him to national political party conventions, presidential primaries, the Olympics, Asia and Europe. In 1993, he was one of only 25 Americans chosen to take part in the European Community Visitorship Program in Brussels, Belgium. Horsey also spent a year at the Hearst Newspapers Washington Bureau where he took a closer look at national politics for the P-I editorial page.

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.). He has been named as one of the 100 most notable alumni of the University of Washington in the 20th Century and is a member of the advisory board for the UW College of Arts and Sciences.

The Society of Professional Journalists has given Horsey a total of 13 first place regional awards for cartooning, governmental reporting and spot news reporting as well as the 1999 Susan Hutchison Bosch Award for outstanding achievement in journalism.

Horsey took first place in the 1994 Best of the West journalism competition and, in 1995, he was the first cartoonist to win the Environmental Media Award. In 1991, he received a Global Media Award from the Population Institute.

Horsey has published four collections of his professional work, Horsey's Rude Awakenings (1981), Horsey's Greatest Hits of the '80s (1989), The Fall of Man (1994) and One Man Show (1999). In 1992, he co-edited an anthology, Cartooning AIDS Around the World. He also has two novels in the works.

Horsey resides in Seattle with his wife, Nole Ann, and two children, Darielle and Daniel.