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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Luckovich is the most nationally reprinted cartoonist in the United States. An editorial cartoonist with the Atlanta Journal- Constitution since 1989, in 2006 he became the first cartoonist to receive two of the most prestigious awards in the same year: the Reuben, the National Cartoonist Society’s top award for cartoonist of the year, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Published this year with an introduction by former President Jimmy Carter, Luckovich’s book, Four More Years!, features a compilation of cartoons and memoirs that in addition to the current President Bush, “cast a wicked net over Bill Clinton, Donald Rumsfeld, Pat Robertson, the Catholic church, and even the Boy Scouts.”

Born in Seattle, Luckovich graduated from the University of Washington in 1982, sold life insurance door-to-door for two years, and got his first editorial cartoonist job in South Carolina with the Greenville News in 1984. He left Greenville nine months later for a job with the New Orleans Times-Picayune, then joined the Journal-Constitution in 1989. Luckovich was awarded his first Pulitzer Prize in 1995. Syndicated in over 150 newspapers, Luckovich’s work appears regularly in Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.

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