Bob Gorrell has been one of the South's leading editorial cartoonists for over 15 years.
His drawings have appeared in more than 400 newspapers and in magazines such as Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Business Week, and National Review. He has been featured on CBS' "Face the Nation' and has been a guest on CNN's "Crossfire." He has also published an anthology of over 140 drawings, titled "Affairs of State."
After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia in 1977, Gorrell began work as a staff artist at the Fort Meyers News-Press in Florida. Two years later, he moved to Charlotte, N.C., where he worked for the Charlotte News.
Since 1983, Gorrell has been an editorial cartoonist in Richmond, Va. first with the Richmond News Leader and then, starting in 1992, with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. On January 1, 1998, he resigned from the Times-Dispatch to concentrate on syndicated editorial cartoons and comic panel features for Creators Syndicate.
Over the course of Gorrell's career, he has won numerous awards and citations for excellence from the Overseas Press Club of America, the Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition, the Mencken Awards and the Dragonslayer Editorial Cartoon Contest. He has also won seven first-place awards for editorial cartooning in the annual Virginia Press Association competition. Most recently, he won the 1998 National Press Foundation Berryman Award as editorial cartoonist of the year.
Gorrell was born in Greensboro, N.C., on April 6, 1955.
