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Ted Rall

Frederick Theodore Rall III (born August 26, 1963) is an American columnist, syndicated editorial cartoonist, and author. His political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format and frequently blend comic-strip and editorial-cartoon conventions. At the peak, Rall's cartoons appeared in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States. He was president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists from 2008 to 2009.

Ted Rall

Frederick Theodore Rall III
(1963-08-26) August 26, 1963
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

American

Artist, writer, editor

Revenge of the Latchkey Kids, To Afghanistan and Back, Silk Road to Ruin, The Anti-American Manifesto

Rall draws three editorial cartoons a week for syndication, draws illustrations on a freelance basis, writes a weekly syndicated column, and edits the Attitude series of alternative cartooning anthologies and spin-off collections by up-and-coming cartoonists. He writes and draws cartoons for the tech and politics news site founded by journalist Gina Smith, aNewDomain,[1] and is the editor-in-chief of the satirical news website skewednews.net.


Rall also writes and draws cartoons for Sputnik International, a news website platform established by the Russian government-owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya (Россия Сегодня—Russia Today).


He is a graphic novelist and the author of non-fiction books about domestic and international current affairs. He also travels to and writes about Central Asia, a region he believes to be pivotal to U.S. foreign policy concerns. In November 2001 he went to Afghanistan as a war correspondent for The Village Voice and KFI Radio in Los Angeles. He returned to Afghanistan in August 2010, traveling independently and unembedded throughout the country, filing daily "cartoon blogs" by satellite.

1995:

Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award

1996: Finalist, Pulitzer Prize

1997: (Graphic Novel), for Real Americans Admit: The Worst Thing I've Ever Done![38]

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

1997: First Prize, Deadline Club Award, Society of Professional Journalists

2000: Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award

2001: , for 2024: A Graphic Novel

Amazon's Best Books of the Year

2002: Best Book of the Year, , for To Afghanistan and Bac

American Library Association

2002: James Aronson Award for Social Justice Graphics

2007: Second Prize, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Awards

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2007: Second Prize, Lambda Legal's "Life Without Fair Courts" cartoon contest

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2008: Ohioana Citation for Art and Journalism

2010: Scripps Howard National Journalism Award, Finalist

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2011: First Prize, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Awards

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Waking Up In America (St. Martin's Press, 1992),  0-312-08518-4

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All The Rules Have Changed (Rip Off Press, 1995),  0-89620-119-8

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Search and Destroy (Andrews McMeel 2001),  0-7407-1396-5

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America Gone Wild (Andrews McMeel, 2006),  0-7407-6045-9

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- another cartoonist who has collaborated with Rall

Matt Bors

List of newspaper columnists

Official website

Interview with Rall in Satya magazine from 2003

Interview with Rall on bdtheque.com - 2008