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Meet Dan Wasserman
Dan Wasserman of The Boston Globe is one of America's most refreshing editorial cartoonists. His visual skits-sharp, sly, humorous and memorable, choreographed in one to six frames-show no mercy. The Wasserman voice and striking style stem from his interest in the vocabulary of politics, politicians and public figures. "The English language," he notes, "is usually one of the first casualties of misguided policies. When the characters in my drawings speak, I try to give them a more accurate teleprompter to read from." He approaches most issues from the left, but doesn't hesitate to go after the liberals. Says Wasserman, "Their dearth of new ideas with which to challenge the conservatives is one of my favorite targets." His cartoons, distributed by Tribune Media Services three times a week-sometimes with a bonus fourth-appear in such newspapers as The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, The Seattle Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, San Francisco Examiner and Dallas Times Herald. His cartoons also have been frequently featured in national publications, including Time, Newsweek, the Economist and The New York Times' Sunday "Week in Review," and on the MacNeil Lehrer "NewsHour" and other TV network news programs. He is the author of We've Been Framed! (Faber & Faber, 1987), a collection of his cartoons covering President Reagan's two terms in office. Wasserman, who drew for The Washington Star before he joined the Globe in 1985, is a native of New Haven, Conn. While attending Swarthmore College he began writing and drawing for campus publications, then went on to study at the Art Students League in New York while teaching college-level English. He lives in Boston.
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