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Meet Jack Higgins

Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Higgins, an editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times, was recognized early and has been awarded often during his illustrious career.

The portraits of President Kennedy that he created for his college literary magazine are now part of the permanent collection at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. In 1986, just two years after he began as an editorial cartoonist at the Chicago Sun-Times, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He then went on to win the award three years later. His incisive cartoons have been reprinted in The New York Times, Newsweek, National Review and The Washington Times and re-run regularly on Jewish World Review.com.

Higgins has been interviewed on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN Headline News, Chicago"s NBC, PBS and CBS affiliates and Good Morning Canada to give his take on political scandals and presidential elections. His assignments have taken him to Cuba, Hungary, Ireland and the former Soviet Union. A self-taught illustrator who grew up in an artistic family, Higgins credits cartoonists Paul Szep, John Fischetti, Dick Locher, Herblock and Jeff MacNelly as his greatest influences.

Higgins earned his B.A. in economics from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. In 1991, he was honored with the alumni medal from St. Ignatius College Prep school in Chicago.

He is a multiple recipient of other prestigious national and regional cartooning awards, including the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Award for Outstanding Commentary from the Chicago Association of Black Journalists. Higgins, his wife and their three children reside in Chicago.