Jimmy Margulies is an award-winning editorial cartoonist

Editorial cartoonist

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His work appears daily in The Record

The Record (Bergen County)

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in Hackensack, New Jersey

Hackensack, New Jersey

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, and is distributed nationally to over 425 papers by King Features Syndicate

King Features Syndicate

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. His cartoons appear regularly in Time

Time (magazine)

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, Newsweek

Newsweek

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, The New York Times

The New York Times

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and USA Today

USA Today

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Margulies has won the National Headliner Award and Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition (1996), and the Barryman Award from the National Press Foundation

National Press Foundation

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 (2005). The National Rifle Association

National Rifle Association

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placed him on their blacklist, which he considers a badge of honor.

In its 2009 "Best of Everything" lists, Time Magazine listed Margulies's "Save the Women and Children...and my bonus too" as its top editorial cartoon of the year.

Margulies has two collections of his cartoons published ...My Husband is Not a Wimp! (1988), and Hitting Below the Beltway (1998).