Rob Rogers is the award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. His cartoons have been vexing and entertaining readers in Pittsburgh since 1984. Syndicated by United Feature Syndicate, Rogers’ work also appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and Newsweek, among others.
Rogers has also been the curator of three national cartoon exhibitions, Too Hot to Handle: Creating Controversy through Political Cartoons (2003) and Drawn To The Summit: A G-20 Exhibition Of Political Cartoons (2009), both at The Andy Warhol Museum, and Bush Leaguers: Cartoonists Take on the White House (2007) at the American University Museum. Rogers is an active member (and past president) of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. His work received the 2000 Thomas Nast Award from the Overseas Press Club, the 1995 National Headliner Award, and numerous Golden Quills. In 1999 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
In 2009, Rogers celebrated 25 years as a Pittsburgh editorial cartoonist with the release of his book, No Cartoon Left Behind: The Best of Rob Rogers, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.
He is currently serving as board president of the ToonSeum, a cartoon museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Rockngolfer said, 11 months ago
I’m feeling a little schizophrenic today. I guess that makes four of us.
Darren Blair said, 11 months ago
@Rockngolfer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney
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Romney was born in Detroit, Michigan, and so is a legal American citizen.
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It was his father George who was born in Mexico. Even then, however, George’s parents had American citizenship (his ancestors had fled overt religious persecution) and so George himself was able to make a bid for the Presidency.
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In that sense, today’s strip is little better than the “birther” stuff that so many people deride.
walruscarver2000 said, 11 months ago
@Darren Blair
Am I missing something? Where did Rockn challenge Romney’s citizenship unlike the riightwing who have screamed about Obama for four years now?
Jase99 said, 11 months ago
@Darren Blair
“It was his father George who was born in Mexico. Even then, however, George’s parents had American citizenship (his ancestors had fled overt religious persecution) and so George himself was able to make a bid for the Presidency.
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In that sense, today’s strip is little better than the “birther” stuff that so many people deride.”
This cartoon has nothing to do with Mitt’s citizenship and everything to do with the change in his position on illegal immigration.
That said, I do partially agree with Mitt. Severely punish the companies that employ illegal immigrants and the problem will be drastically reduced.
ODon said, 11 months ago
@Darren Blair
Read, absorb, then leap…if appropriate.
NebulousRikulau
said, 11 months ago
It’s not about Mitt’s citizenship, it’s about how he changed his political stances between the Primaries, where he needed to be heavily right wing, and how he’s talking now, which is more centrist, to try and pick up independents.
pdchapin said, 11 months ago
Watching Romney’s response to Obama’s decision has been fun. Sort of Romney in the headlights. Since he lacks any core beliefs he has to wait to see how the politics play out before answering a simple questions about whether he’ll keep the Obama policy. Annoy the right wing where he gets his money and his workers or the annoy the majority of us.
Rockngolfer said, 11 months ago
@Darren Blair
And some people say Republicans live in a fact free universe.
I know that about Mitt already.
Want to go over Marco Rubio’s bio?
I don’t like either Mitt or Rubio for philosophical reasons.
Darren Blair said, 11 months ago
@walruscarver2000
looks at post
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I think I might have hit the wrong reply button.
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Sorry about that, everyone.
will17 said, 11 months ago
i’m feeling pretty worn out and i’m ready for bed
braindead08 said, 11 months ago
The last thing Romney and Republicans want is for illegal immigrants to leave. That would be Bad for Business. Horrible for business, in fact.
Many industries would collapse without the cheap labor, that is also docile.
pcolli said, 11 months ago
So, if we all went home from whichever country to wherever our ancestors came from, there would be a lot of overcrowded countries.
pirate227 said, 11 months ago
“No say.” LOL!
Wabbit
said, 11 months ago
i don’t think he will fool too many Latinos.
George P Burdell said, 11 months ago
And tell me again why we even need a congress (at a rather humongous expense) if the executive branch can make such a sweeping change on our immigration policies with a stroke of his magic pen?