Horsey’s 2012 cartoon skewers Goldman Sachs
By Joe Floren
In the narrowing field of editorial cartoonists, David Horsey is a star performer — earning an increasingly wide audience among newspaper readers — and twice capturing a Pulitzer Prize for cartooning: the first in 1999 when many of his cartoons focused on the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and again in 2003, when he lampooned the Bush administration.
His columns and cartoons now reach readers in over 200 newspapers. His seventh book, The Last Refuge of Scoundrels, is about to come off the press.
He is pretty much a Washingtonian, having moved to the state at age three. He graduated in 1976 from the University of Washington, where he was the first cartoonist to edit the student newspaper, The Daily. His first job after graduation was as reporter for the Bellevue Journal-American. Then in 1979, he was hired as editorial cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. At the end of 2011, he left the PI and Seattle, and went to work for the Los Angeles Times, his current employer.
An exhibit of Horsey’s work will open in the main Orcas Center gallery on Friday, September 6 at 5:30 p.m.,, and continue through the month. Copies of his cartoons will be available for purchase.
A smaller, complementary exhibit will be on display at the Orcas Library for much of October.
The September 6 opening and reception also hearlds the fall “On and Off the Wall” exhibits of local artists’ work, which will be on display in the Madrona Room throughout the month.
A separate but related event at 4 p.m. on October 20 will offer islanders a first-hand opportunity to hear the cartoonist. The presentation is sponsored by Orcas Crossroads Lecture Series and will be held in the Center Auditorium.
