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Topics
Marketing to Generation X
Reaching Younger Americans
The Decline of American Political Cartooning
The Death of the Two-Party System
The Future of Cartooning: The Alternative Weeklies
Generational Warfare
The Trouble With Free Trade
Generational Politics
Politics
Economics
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Rall is a neo-traditionalist who uses a unique drawing style to
revive the approach of Thomas Nast, who viewed editorial cartoons
as a vehicle for change. His focus is on issues important to ordinary
working people, such as un- and underemployment, the environment
and popular culture, but he also comments on political and social
trends.
Ted Rall was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1963, raised in Kettering,
Ohio, and graduated from high school in 1981. He majored in physics
at Columbia University's School of Engineering, where he drew cartoons
for the Columbia Daily Spectator. After a six-year hiatus on Wall
Street he graduated from Columbia with honors in history in 1991.
Inspired after meeting pop artist Keith Haring in a Manhattan
subway station, Rall began posting his cartoons on New York City
streets. In 1991, after a few years of self-syndication, Rall's
cartoons were signed for national syndication. His cartoons now
appear in more than 140 publications, including the Los Angeles
Times, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle and New York Times.
Ted has published three collections of cartoons. Other books include
Rall's critically acclaimed first graphic novel, “Real Americans
Admit: The Worst Thing I've Ever Done!” (1996), a collection of
real-life stories of people's worst deeds told in comic form; It
won the 1997 Firecracker Alternative Book Award. Rall's second graphic
novel, the semi-autobiographical “My War With Brian”, was published
in 1998. “2024,” a contemporary update and parody of Orwell's 1984,
was published in May 2001.
In 1996, he was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
He was The New York Times' most reprinted cartoonist in 1997 and
1999, and began doing color strips for both Time and Fortune magazines
in 1998. He was awarded the 1998 Deadline Club Award by the Society
of Professional Journalists for his cartoons. Rall received first
place in both the 1995 and 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
for Cartoons. The award, founded in 1968, recognizes distinguished
work on behalf of disadvantaged Americans.
Ted's searing prose manifesto of generational angst, “Revenge of
the Latchkey Kids,” received widespread critical acclaim and established
him as one of America's leading spokespeople for Generation X.
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