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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omQ R said, 3 months ago
Amazon & Ebay and on-line shopping will come to its rescue. And blight the down-towns and high-streets the world over.
Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago
I was the first in my office to use email.
omQ R said, 3 months ago
Corrects it to:“basement.”
masterskrain said, 3 months ago
YES, this a copy and paste, but it’s easier then writing the whole thing again…
I live in a very rural part of Kentucky, and have both a P.O. Box address in town, (About a 20 mile trip each way), and a mailbox at my physical address, (About a 1.5 mile trip each way!).
Most of my mail does come to the P.O. Box, but Fed-Ex and UPS WILL deliver to my mailbox address, since they won’t deliver to a P.O. Box address.
Of course, when the USPS was created they had NO competition, but with the advent of private package delivery services, e-mail, and the like, they have to figure out a way to cut expenses, and remain competitive, just like ANY other business should.
If the USPS could eliminate the “Bulk Mail” rate, which forces them to deliver huge amounts of “Junk Mail” at cheap rates, they would be able to streamline their services, as a lot of advertisers would stop sending out all that crap that ends up in the garbage, and in landfills, which would help to cut expenses.(Not to mention saving a heck of a lot of trees…)
Just a thought to consider…
omQ R said, 3 months ago
@masterskrain
In the U.K. Royalmail has “DirectMail”, one of their products. Which delivers junkmail. One has to ask to opt out receiving it else you get it.
When I did, I had the regular postman beg me not to do it since it was providing Royalmail important revenue. I insisted I didn’t want any junkmail. Whenever my regular postie is off, I always get the bloody things.
russell5419 said, 3 months ago
@masterskrain
well put
Clark Kent said, 3 months ago
I still get bills in the mail as well as tons of junk mail.
Harleyquinn
said, 3 months ago
I know let us turn it into a green movement. Home delivery 3 days a week will cut the demon CO2 by half.
Harleyquinn
said, 3 months ago
Come on green weenies, who is with me? Half the demon CO2 for bigger piles of junk mail 3 days a week.
Rockngolfer said, 3 months ago
That isn’t the problem, CONgress is the problem, but why waste time posting facts.
treesareus said, 3 months ago
The first postage stamps in the US, circa 1845, cost about $3.40 in todays dollars. If Congress had allowed the USPS to keep up with inflation from that starting point.
coraryan
said, 3 months ago
Won’t buy too many “forever” stamps because I don’t know how long they are going to be in business. They do some of the dumbest things. If I mail something locally, they send it clear to Toledo to process and then send it back to deliver it down the street. How dumb. As far as I am concerned, they could deliver mail Mon., Wed. & Fri. That would be good enough.
Harleyquinn
said, 3 months ago
@coraryan
Too many Mon. holidays. Tues, Thurs, Sat. is more practical.
Harleyquinn
said, 3 months ago
I bet we can save more money by cutting home delivery down to 3 days a week. Then Obama spent on his magic green job quest.
magicwalnut said, 3 months ago
Bulkmail once a week….Bills and real magazines every other day.