Pulitzer Prize winner Ramirez joins RJ staff

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Michael Ramirez has joined the Review-journal editorial page staff. His cartoons will appear five days per week beginning Sunday.

Ramirez started working at The Commercial Appeal in Memphis in 1990. He won his first editorial cartooning Pulitzer Prize — journalism’s highest honor — in 1994. He worked at the Los Angeles Times from 1997 to 2005 and then joined Investor’s Business Daily as senior editor and editorial cartoonist, where he won another Pulitzer in 2008.

Ramirez has also won the National Cartoonists Society’s editorial cartoon divi

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sion award five times and the Sigma Delta Chi Award, from the Society of Professional Journalists, three times.

“Michael Ramirez brings his keen political mind, wholly unique drawing ability and sophisticated sense of humor full time to the Review-journal,” Publisher and Editor Keith Moyer said. “And our readers, online and in print, will no doubt look forward throughout each week to Michael’s newsy, on-target conservative takes on politics, American life and the world in general. We are thrilled to have him join our team.”

Ramirez described himself as an “equal-opportunity offender” and said his work won’t show allegiance to any political party.

“I believe it is a form of serious journalism that can impact the political dialogue,” Ramirez said.

Ramirez fell into the political cartooning world in college, while studying at the University of California, Irvine. He began writing and drawing for his student newspaper while working toward three majors with plans to become a cardiovascular surgeon.

“I like to think about all the lives I saved by becoming a journalist instead,” he joked.