David Horsey
 
Meet David Horsey

David Horsey is the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist.

Horsey's work for the Post-Intelligencer has taken him to national political party conventions, presidential primaries, the Olympics, Japan 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 recently completed a year at the Hearst Newspapers Washington Bureau, where he took a closer look at Congress, the White House and the presidential campaign for the Post-Intelligencer editorial page.

Horsey received a B.A. in communications from the University of Washington where he was editor of the student newspaper, The Daily. After a stint as a government reporter and political columnist at the state capital, he joined the editorial page of the Post-Intelligencer. In 1986, as a Rotary Foundation Scholar, Horsey earned an M.A. in international relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury (U.K.).

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. 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. In 1984, the Municipal League of Seattle and King County named Horsey recipient of its Outstanding News Reporting Award.

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 is currently president-elect of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He resides in Seattle with his wife, Nole Ann, and two children, Darielle and Daniel.