Adam Zyglis is an American

United States

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 editorial cartoonist

Editorial cartoonist

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 who works for the Buffalo News of Buffalo, New York

Buffalo, New York

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, where he replaced Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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 winner Tom Toles

Tom Toles

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 who became the cartoonist for the Washington Post. Zyglis is also nationally syndicated

Print syndication

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 through Cagle Cartoons

Daryl Cagle

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. Before the News , he was the cartoonist for The Griffin, the student newspaper at Canisius College

Canisius College

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 from which he graduated in 2004. He has additionally also done freelance work and caricatures and cartoons for the weekly alternative Artvoice. Zyglis has won awards from the Associated College Press, and the Universal Press Syndicate

Universal Press Syndicate

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, and has been nominated for several other national cartooning awards. He placed 3rd in the 2007 National Headliner Awards.