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Rob Rogers is a freelance editorial cartoonist in Pittsburgh. His cartoons have been vexing and entertaining readers since 1984 in the Pittsburgh Press (1984–93) and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1993–2018). Rogers’ work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and Newsweek, among others.
He received the 2000 and 2013 Thomas Nast Award from the Overseas Press Club, the 1995 National Headliner Award, and numerous Golden Quills. In 2015 Rogers was awarded the Berryman Award from the National Press Foundation. In 1999 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Rogers has curated several national cartoon exhibitions including "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. More recently, with the ToonSeum, Rogers curated "Slinging Satire: Editorial Cartooning and the First Amendment" (2015) and "From MLK to March: Civil Rights in Comics and Cartoons" (2016). Rogers served as board president of the ToonSeum in Pittsburgh from 2007 until 2017 and is an active member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.
In 2009, Rogers released "No Cartoon Left Behind: The Best of Rob Rogers," and in 2015, he released a local cartoon collection, “Mayoral Ink: Cartooning Pittsburgh’s Mayors.”