Question #19358. Asked by alias.
Last updated Jan 04 2017.
On 5 August 1921, the New York World published Rollin Kirby’s (1875-1952) “On the Road to Moscow.” This was the first editorial cartoon to win a Pulitzer Prize. It was one of three Pulitzer Prize’s Kirby would win.
Trudeau becomes the first comic strip artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. The Editorial Cartoonists' Society passes a resolution condemning the Pulitzer Prize committee. Trudeau, assured the award is irrevocable, supports the resolution.