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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dtroutma
said, 7 months ago
’bout right(ie)!
bob-lezeb said, 7 months ago
And those 4 guys are from the brighter half of the Republican Party.
braindead08 said, 7 months ago
Go Rush, go!
mickey1339
said, 7 months ago
48% of Americans did not support Obama for reelection. The caricatures are well deserved for the extremists who harp on these stupid issues. The real issues are those more serious issues that are getting worse under Obama’s tutelage: the deficit spending, unemployment, people on food stamps, the increasing poverty level, SSI disability claims at record levels, the anti-business rhetoric, class warfare, just to name a few. What’s sad is that people don’t just mildly dislike Obama, they despise him. A huge number of people that voted for Romney only did so because they felt so desperate to get rid of Obama. It’s comparable to the vitriol that the liberals demonstrated for Bush and Chaney…
motivemagus said, 7 months ago
@mickey1339
Not really comparable. Bush and Cheney have a lot to answer for, for which they deserved criticism, if not vitriol. Obama was blocked at every turn, and furthermore has been demonized in ways not experienced by ANY recent president. When you find a liberal calling Bush and Cheney the equivalent of a “Kenyan Muslim Marxist,” you let me know.
walruscarver2000 said, 7 months ago
They have just been signed (along with Trump) as Fox news commentators.
mikefive said, 7 months ago
@mickey1339
Actually, Mickey, if you add in the votes for third party candidates, 49.6% of Americans did not support Obama for reelection.
ARodney said, 7 months ago
Did you hear where Rush predicted a Romney landslide of over 300 electoral votes on Monday, then on Wednesday said that he’d always known that Romney would lose? The guy is not man enough to admit a mistake, he lies instead. And people still listen to him?
Respectful Troll said, 7 months ago
@mickey1339
Good post Mickey. I don’t know any republicans those images represent. I do believe there is a way to ‘fix’ the services you list without getting rid of the good they do. The hatred for Obama is more problematic. I know too many people, some of them relatives, who voted against him because he was black. I saw a man who appeared on MSNBC who said he was a republican voting for Obama and too many of his party were only voting against Obama because he was a black man.
Comments under some of the Yahoo News headlines have plenty of people whose racial hate is very vocal. It makes me appreciate folks here more after reading some of that. We have some hard line opinions here, but I rarely see anyone going into that gutter.
I do agree with your post and appreciate the tone you set. You list a number of programs that need revamping and tighter scrutiny. I know alot of people who only voted for Obama because of the extreme direction the conservatives were taking. We need candidates we can vote FOR, instead of having candidates so we can vote AGAINST the perceived worst of two options.
Respectfully,
C.
NebulousRikulau
said, 7 months ago
@Respectful Troll We need candidates we can vote FOR, instead of having candidates so we can vote AGAINST the perceived worst of two options.
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Yes, but can you really see anyone sane enough and who has the skills to be successful as President wanting to take on the problems that go with it?
mikefive said, 7 months ago
@NebulousRikulau
I sure agree with you, NR. I think I mentioned in a post a while back that in a study of past Presidents that we normally got , at best, fourth rate executives.
Chillbilly
said, 7 months ago
@mickey1339
Agree with mickey1339. After watching what Obama’s been going through, I know I was wrong to do the same to Bush even though I disagreed with him so strongly. Personal, irrational insults only weed out candidates who are too civil to accept them being hurled at them. That’s a lot of people, people.
MortyForTyrant said, 7 months ago
Okay, that’s it, I quit U.S. politics, it’s bad for my blood-pressure…
cb1966 said, 7 months ago
Labeling someone as a socialist or Kenyan or repeatedly asking the annoying question of “where’s your birth certificate”, while immature, is not lewd. “Godless Muslim”, on the other hand, is completely offensive and a shameful (albeit an oxymoron) expression.
The Wolf In Your Midst said, 7 months ago
@MortyForTyrant
You can do what I do: Stand above it all, and laugh at the idiots of all stripes.
You gotta laugh or you’ll cry….