Kevin Kallaugher
Encyclopedia
Kevin Kallaugher is a political cartoonist for The Economist
and the former cartoonist for the Baltimore Sun. He is known as KAL at The Economist.
with honors in Visual and Environmental Studies in 1977. He then embarked on a bicycle tour of the British Isles
, where he joined the Brighton Bears
Basketball Club as a player and coach. After the club hit financial difficulties, Kallaugher drew caricature
s of tourists in Trafalgar Square
and on Brighton Pier
. In March 1978, The Economist
recruited him to become their first resident cartoonist in their then 135-year history.
A picture of Indira Gandhi
by Kal was considered offensive by India
n authorities in 1984, leading to the destruction of the printed editions of the newspaper in the country.
Kallaugher spent the next 10 years working in London as a cartoonist for such publications as The Observer
, The Sunday Telegraph, Today
and The Mail on Sunday
.
Kallaugher returned to the U.S. in 1988 to join The Baltimore Sun
as its editorial cartoonist. Over the course of his 17 years at the newspaper, he drew over 4000 cartoons for The Sun while continuing to draw two cartoons per week for The Economist. Kallaugher's work for The Economist includes over 120 illustrated covers.
In 1995, Kallaugher was invited by the Walters Art Museum
to help curate the celebrated exhibit "Worth a Thousand Words: A Picture of Contemporary Political Satire". In 2006, the Walters mounted a major retrospective exhibition of Kallaugher's cartoons titled "Mightier than The Sword; The Satirical Pen of KAL". Kallaugher's work has also been exhibited at the Tate Gallery
in London and the Library of Congress
in Washington, D.C.
He has had one-man exhibitions in London, New York City
, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore.
, Der Spiegel
, Pravda
, Krokodil
, Daily Yomiuri, The Australian
, The International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post
, The New York Times
, The New Yorker
, Time
, Newsweek
and U.S. News and World Report. His cartoons are distributed worldwide by Cartoonarts International and the New York Times Syndicate.
Prize as presented by the town of Landau
, Germany. In 2004 he won the Gillray Goblet for Cartoon of the Year as presented by the Political Cartoon Society of Great Britain. In 1999, 2002 and 2005 he won the Thomas Nast Award presented by the Overseas Press Club of America, and in 2002 he was awarded the Berryman award presented by the National Press Foundation. In 1996 he won the Grafica Internazionale Award at the International Festival of Satire in Pisa, Italy. In 1990 he was awarded the award for Best Editorial Cartoon at the Witty World International Cartoon Festival in Budapest, Hungary and the 1982 Feature Cartoonist of the Year Award as presented by the Cartoonist Club Of Great Britain.
In 1999, The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons said of him: "Commanding a masterful style, Kallaugher stands among the premier caricaturists of the (twentieth) century."
Kallaugher is past President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and Cartoons Rights Network, an international human rights organization dedicate to the plight of cartoonists at risk.
In February 2010 KAL launched his first iPhone app, based on his most recent cartoon collection KAL Draws Criticism, with an additional bonus section.
. In 1986, Kallaugher worked with the animator Richard Williams to produce "No Bias", an award winning 30 second television commercial for the Today newspaper
in Great Britain. In 2004 Kallaugher teamed up with animator Gary Leib at Twinkle studio to create flash animation video for ABC
's Nightline and CNN
's Lou Dobbs Tonight
.
In 2006, Kallaugher was named Artist-in-Residence at the Imaging Research Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. With the IRC, Kallaugher has pioneered the development of 3D digital caricatures that can be animated in Real-time. His first character, The Digital Dubya, made its world premier at a live press conference at the Walters Art Museum
in June 2006. The World Wide Web premier of his digital animation was in March 2007 when The Economist
commissioned a web video to coincide with the launch of a gallery of KAL's cartoons on the magazine's website.
Kallaugher launched a Maryland-based animation company, Kaltoons LLC, in 2007. Kaltoons first video, Dancin' Dubya was released online in August 2007.
The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
and the former cartoonist for the Baltimore Sun. He is known as KAL at The Economist.
Editorial cartoon career
Kallaugher graduated from Harvard CollegeHarvard College
Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...
with honors in Visual and Environmental Studies in 1977. He then embarked on a bicycle tour of the British Isles
British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe that include the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and over six thousand smaller isles. There are two sovereign states located on the islands: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and...
, where he joined the Brighton Bears
Brighton Bears
Brighton Bears was a British basketball team based in Brighton, Sussex. From 1984 to 1999 the club was known as the Worthing Bears and was based in the town of Worthing, 12 miles west of Brighton. The Bears played in the top-flight British Basketball League until 2006 when the franchise folded...
Basketball Club as a player and coach. After the club hit financial difficulties, Kallaugher drew caricature
Caricature
A caricature is a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others.Caricatures can be...
s of tourists in Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square is a public space and tourist attraction in central London, England, United Kingdom. At its centre is Nelson's Column, which is guarded by four lion statues at its base. There are a number of statues and sculptures in the square, with one plinth displaying changing pieces of...
and on Brighton Pier
Brighton Pier
The Brighton Marine Palace and Pier is a pleasure pier in Brighton, England. It is generally known as the Palace Pier for short, but has been informally renamed Brighton Pier since 2000 by its owners, the Noble Organisation, in an attempt to suggest that it is Brighton's only pier...
. In March 1978, The Economist
The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
recruited him to become their first resident cartoonist in their then 135-year history.
A picture of Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...
by Kal was considered offensive by India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n authorities in 1984, leading to the destruction of the printed editions of the newspaper in the country.
Kallaugher spent the next 10 years working in London as a cartoonist for such publications as The Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
, The Sunday Telegraph, Today
Today (UK newspaper)
Today was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom, which was published between 1986 and 1995.-History:Today, with the American newspaper USA Today as inspiration, launched on Tuesday, 4 March 1986, with the front page headline, "Second Spy Inside GCHQ". At 18 pence, it was a middle-market...
and The Mail on Sunday
The Mail on Sunday
The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, currently published in a tabloid format. First published in 1982 by Lord Rothermere, it became Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper following the closing of The News of the World in July 2011...
.
Kallaugher returned to the U.S. in 1988 to join The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun is the U.S. state of Maryland’s largest general circulation daily newspaper and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries....
as its editorial cartoonist. Over the course of his 17 years at the newspaper, he drew over 4000 cartoons for The Sun while continuing to draw two cartoons per week for The Economist. Kallaugher's work for The Economist includes over 120 illustrated covers.
In 1995, Kallaugher was invited by the Walters Art Museum
Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum, located in Baltimore, Maryland's Mount Vernon neighborhood, is a public art museum founded in 1934. The museum's collection was amassed substantially by two men, William Thompson Walters , who began serious collecting when he moved to Paris at the outbreak of the American...
to help curate the celebrated exhibit "Worth a Thousand Words: A Picture of Contemporary Political Satire". In 2006, the Walters mounted a major retrospective exhibition of Kallaugher's cartoons titled "Mightier than The Sword; The Satirical Pen of KAL". Kallaugher's work has also been exhibited at the Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery
The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art...
in London and the Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
He has had one-man exhibitions in London, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore.
Syndication
KAL's work for The Sun and The Economist has appeared in more than 100 publications worldwide, including Le MondeLe Monde
Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper owned by La Vie-Le Monde Group and edited in Paris. It is one of two French newspapers of record, and has generally been well respected since its first edition under founder Hubert Beuve-Méry on 19 December 1944...
, Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.-Overview:...
, Pravda
Pravda
Pravda was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991....
, Krokodil
Krokodil
Krokodil was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1922. At that time, a large number of satirical magazines existed, such as Zanoza and Prozhektor...
, Daily Yomiuri, The Australian
The Australian
The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
, The International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
, Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
and U.S. News and World Report. His cartoons are distributed worldwide by Cartoonarts International and the New York Times Syndicate.
Awards and honors
Kallaugher has won many awards for his work including the 2005 NastThomas Nast
Thomas Nast was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist who is considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". He was the scourge of Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall machine...
Prize as presented by the town of Landau
Landau
Landau or Landau in der Pfalz is an autonomous city surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town , a long-standing cultural centre, and a market and shopping town, surrounded by vineyards and wine-growing villages of the...
, Germany. In 2004 he won the Gillray Goblet for Cartoon of the Year as presented by the Political Cartoon Society of Great Britain. In 1999, 2002 and 2005 he won the Thomas Nast Award presented by the Overseas Press Club of America, and in 2002 he was awarded the Berryman award presented by the National Press Foundation. In 1996 he won the Grafica Internazionale Award at the International Festival of Satire in Pisa, Italy. In 1990 he was awarded the award for Best Editorial Cartoon at the Witty World International Cartoon Festival in Budapest, Hungary and the 1982 Feature Cartoonist of the Year Award as presented by the Cartoonist Club Of Great Britain.
In 1999, The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons said of him: "Commanding a masterful style, Kallaugher stands among the premier caricaturists of the (twentieth) century."
Kallaugher is past President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and Cartoons Rights Network, an international human rights organization dedicate to the plight of cartoonists at risk.
Books
Kallaugher published a collection of his Economist drawings entitled Drawn from The Economist (1988) and four collections of his Baltimore Sun cartoons entitled KALtoons (1992), KAL Draws a Crowd (1996) and KAL Draws the Line (2000). A new collection, KAL Draws Criticism, was published in June 2006.In February 2010 KAL launched his first iPhone app, based on his most recent cartoon collection KAL Draws Criticism, with an additional bonus section.
Animation
As part of his senior thesis at Harvard, Kallaugher completed a 13 minute animated film "In The Days of Disgustus" which featured characters from his weekly cartoon strip by the same name that ran in The Harvard CrimsonThe Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson, the daily student newspaper of Harvard University, was founded in 1873. It is the only daily newspaper in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is run entirely by Harvard College undergraduates...
. In 1986, Kallaugher worked with the animator Richard Williams to produce "No Bias", an award winning 30 second television commercial for the Today newspaper
Today (UK newspaper)
Today was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom, which was published between 1986 and 1995.-History:Today, with the American newspaper USA Today as inspiration, launched on Tuesday, 4 March 1986, with the front page headline, "Second Spy Inside GCHQ". At 18 pence, it was a middle-market...
in Great Britain. In 2004 Kallaugher teamed up with animator Gary Leib at Twinkle studio to create flash animation video for ABC
ABC News
ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
's Nightline and CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
's Lou Dobbs Tonight
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Lou Dobbs Tonight is an American editorial commentary and discussion program hosted by Lou Dobbs, previously broadcast on CNN and currently on Fox Business Network. The hour-long show aired live on evenings every weekday, and was replayed in the overnight/early morning hours. It covered the major...
.
In 2006, Kallaugher was named Artist-in-Residence at the Imaging Research Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. With the IRC, Kallaugher has pioneered the development of 3D digital caricatures that can be animated in Real-time. His first character, The Digital Dubya, made its world premier at a live press conference at the Walters Art Museum
Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum, located in Baltimore, Maryland's Mount Vernon neighborhood, is a public art museum founded in 1934. The museum's collection was amassed substantially by two men, William Thompson Walters , who began serious collecting when he moved to Paris at the outbreak of the American...
in June 2006. The World Wide Web premier of his digital animation was in March 2007 when The Economist
The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
commissioned a web video to coincide with the launch of a gallery of KAL's cartoons on the magazine's website.
Kallaugher launched a Maryland-based animation company, Kaltoons LLC, in 2007. Kaltoons first video, Dancin' Dubya was released online in August 2007.