Kevin Kallaugher

Kevin Kallaugher is the award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Economist and The Baltimore Sun. In a distinguished career than spans 42 years, Kallaugher has created over 8000 cartoons and 150 magazine covers. His resume includes six published collections, including his 35th-year anthology of Economist cartoons titled "Daggers Drawn."

Kallaugher's work has been exhibited in a dozen countries and he has been recognized with awards including Feature Cartoonist of the Year (U.K.), The Thomas Nast Prize (Germany), Cartoon of the Year (Europe), the 2017 Berryman award (U.S.), the Herblock Prize (U.S.), and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (U.S.).

He has created acclaimed animations and calendars, toured the United States with Second City improv comedy troupe, and addressed audiences in more than 40 states and 30 countries. Kallaugher has presented TEDx talks in Warwick, England; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; and IdeaCity in Toronto. In addition, Kallaugher has spoken at Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Duke, and Berkeley universities plus Pixar Studios and Google headquarters. He is the former artist-in-residence at University of Maryland Baltimore County, the Masterworks Museum in Bermuda, and the Studios at Key West.

Kallaugher is a past-president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and Cartoonists Rights Network International and is called one of the “premier caricaturists of the (twentieth) century” by The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons.