Official website of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist, Michael P. Ramirez
|
The official home of two-time Pulitzer winning cartoonist Michael P. Ramirez. We provide the latest cartoons, limited, signed art and liberty inspired t-shirts.
SUPPORT GREAT JOURNALISM
Thanks to each and every one of you for your support and friendship. I sincerely appreciate it. The Las Vegas Review-Journal is offering the first two months for just 99 cents a month. If you are interested in subscribing to the Las Vegas @ReviewJournal, please use this link: mylvrj.com/ramirez. Michael P. Ramirez Biography
Michael Ramirez is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, in 1994 and 2008, and a three-time Sigma Delta Chi, Society of Professional Journalism Award winner and the editorial cartoonist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Michael Ramirez is America's Premier Editorial Cartoonist. Ramirez is a Lincoln Fellow, and an honorary member of Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society. He has won almost every major journalism award in America including the 2005 National Journalism Award, the 2020 & 2018 National Headliners Award, the 2008 Fischetti Award, the H. L. Mencken Award, 2018 Advancing American Democracy Award, and is a five-time National Cartoonists Society editorial cartoon division winner. Michael is the recipient of the prestigious UCI Medal from the University of California, Irvine and is the author of the book, Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion and a new book, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Obamacare," by Simon & Schuster’s Threshold Editions. “An editorial cartoon is not just a funny picture,” says internationally known editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez. “It is a powerful instrument of journalism, sometimes sharp and refined, its message cutting quickly to the point, and other times, blunt and overpowering, seizing the readers’ attention with its dark imagery.” In a world of textual information, Ramirez combines an encyclopedic knowledge of the news with a captivating drawing style to create consistently outstanding and highly incisive satirical cartoons. His commentary on everything from the economy and markets to politics and international affairs offers a unique perspective on today’s issues. They take a humorously insightful look at the world around us, making readers laugh while informing them on the issues of our times. Michael Ramirez’s work is seen world-wide in hundreds of newspapers and magazines through Creators Syndicate. Ramirez was a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard Magazine. He was a member of the A-Team on the “Lou Dobbs Tonight” show on the Fox Business Network. He has appeared on CNN, CNN International, Fox News Sunday, America Live, Fox Business, BBC Television, BBC Radio, NPR, the Michael Reagan show and was a regular on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer. The former editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times and former Senior Editor and editorial cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily, Ramirez’s cartoons have been featured on CNN, Fox News, Fox Business, The Bill O’Reilly Show, and The Rush Limbaugh Show. His work can be seen in such publications as the New York Times, USA Today, the Washington Post, the New York Post, Time Magazine, National Review and US News and World Report. Ramirez co-managed the editorial pages at Investor’s Business Daily and is a highly acclaimed international speaker. His work is featured online at www.michaelpramirez.com, on Facebook under Michael Ramirez-Political Cartoonist and on Twitter @Ramireztoons. You can read Ramirez daily in the LVRJ at www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/michael-ramirez/
|
Essays by Michael Ramirez:
Michael Ramirez Accepts Overseas Press Club AwardAnother national honor for RJ editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez
By Shea Johnson Las Vegas Review-Journal March 18, 2022 - 9:00 am Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez has won a top national honor again, this time the Best Cartoon Award from the Overseas Press Club of America for his work illustrating international affairs. “I am deeply honored to receive this prestigious award. I am proud to be part of a great team of extraordinary journalists at the Las Vegas Review-Journal that puts out a great product every single day,” Ramirez said. “While I am humbled by this award, I can’t take all the credit. I had a lot of help from a large number of nefarious regimes committing evil around the world.” The award, announced Friday, represents the first time the Review-Journal has received recognition from the Overseas Press Club of America, the country’s oldest journalist association focused on international news.
“There is no finer editorial cartoonist than Michael Ramirez,” Review-Journal Editorial Page Editor John Kerr said. “There is no finer artist, no finer wit and no finer critical thinker. We’re immensely proud to have Michael on our team, and we thank the judges of the Overseas Press Club of America for recognizing his work.” Ramirez was among prestigious company: Other winners in the 83rd Annual Overseas Press Club Awards included staff from the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, CNN and National Public Radio. “This year’s winners offer a breathtaking display of what global journalists do — day in and day out,” Overseas Press Club of America President Paula Dwyer said in a statement. Ramirez has previously won two Pulitzer Prizes and three Sigma Delta Chi awards. He and other winners will be honored at a dinner on April 21 in New York. “I am a big believer in editorial cartooning as serious journalism,” Ramirez said. “Editorial cartooning must be more than humorous anecdotes about current events. It should be the catalyst for thought. “Informing readers is our job. Exposing injustice is our duty. The challenge is to do it in a way that will have an impact on the reader. I want to thank the Overseas Press Club for their dedication to these principles and for this tremendous recognition. I am truly grateful.” Judges said Ramirez “masterly employs the full arsenal available to the visual satirist.” “It is rare to find a cartoonist who deftly creates both dark moods and light humor with such skill and intelligence,” they said. “His work effectively eviscerates sacred cows and makes us laugh, even as we sometimes grumble.” |
Connect with Michael!
PJ O’Rourke 1947-2022
By Michael Ramirez
Don't Vote, it just Encourages the Bastards, All The Trouble in the World, Peace Kills, Bachelor Home Companion, Modern Manners, Give War a Chance, CEO of the Sofa, On The Wealth of Nations, Republican Party Reptile, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut... Just a few of the treasures by PJ O'Rourke.
I was deeply saddened to hear of his passing.
He was a brilliant satirist with a sharp wit who could expose hypocrisy and dispatch the grandiloquent dissembler with a stroke of the pen... and leave them laughing about it.
PJ was a satirical genius... I was one of his biggest fans, along with millions of readers.
His columns were funny AND POWERFUL.
PJ demonstrated that substantive discourse could be engaging, persuasive, dynamic, compelling, memorable and devastating by its sheer entertainment and the hilarity of his writing.
PJ taught me that you could reach a much larger audience and have more staying power with humor. He used sarcasm as a weapon of mass destruction. He was a hippy turned Reagan conservative who never forgot our constitutional pilings or our foundation of liberty and freedom, and the power of the free market.
His observations were incisive, trenchant and penetrating, and his prose, was piercing, sharp and cutting, and all so much fun.
I could not believe that PJ O'Rourke agreed to write a brief endorsement for my first book. It is one of my most treasured possessions... right next to Thomas Sowell's.
He wrote, "Michael Ramirez gives new meaning to the phrase "drawn and quartered." Rather than being depicted in a Ramirez cartoon, most politicians would choose to be chopped into fourths and disemboweled. (They don't have a lot of guts anyway. )Being drawn and quartered means pols could run for office in four different electoral districts at once. Being drawn by Ramirez means they're really done for."
PJ O'Rourke was a genius. He understood the fragility of democracy and the precious nature of our Grand Republic. He firmly reminded us not to take it for granted.
Fortunately, PJ lives on in his books and writings. Take a minute and pick up a copy of "Parliament of Whores" and try to tell me you haven't laughed and learned more, all at the same time.
Rest in peace, my friend. May God embrace you in the warmth of His love and comfort your loved ones.
The Republic is less without your wisdom, your humor, your wit, and your astute observations.
You will be dearly missed.
-Michael
By Michael Ramirez
Don't Vote, it just Encourages the Bastards, All The Trouble in the World, Peace Kills, Bachelor Home Companion, Modern Manners, Give War a Chance, CEO of the Sofa, On The Wealth of Nations, Republican Party Reptile, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut... Just a few of the treasures by PJ O'Rourke.
I was deeply saddened to hear of his passing.
He was a brilliant satirist with a sharp wit who could expose hypocrisy and dispatch the grandiloquent dissembler with a stroke of the pen... and leave them laughing about it.
PJ was a satirical genius... I was one of his biggest fans, along with millions of readers.
His columns were funny AND POWERFUL.
PJ demonstrated that substantive discourse could be engaging, persuasive, dynamic, compelling, memorable and devastating by its sheer entertainment and the hilarity of his writing.
PJ taught me that you could reach a much larger audience and have more staying power with humor. He used sarcasm as a weapon of mass destruction. He was a hippy turned Reagan conservative who never forgot our constitutional pilings or our foundation of liberty and freedom, and the power of the free market.
His observations were incisive, trenchant and penetrating, and his prose, was piercing, sharp and cutting, and all so much fun.
I could not believe that PJ O'Rourke agreed to write a brief endorsement for my first book. It is one of my most treasured possessions... right next to Thomas Sowell's.
He wrote, "Michael Ramirez gives new meaning to the phrase "drawn and quartered." Rather than being depicted in a Ramirez cartoon, most politicians would choose to be chopped into fourths and disemboweled. (They don't have a lot of guts anyway. )Being drawn and quartered means pols could run for office in four different electoral districts at once. Being drawn by Ramirez means they're really done for."
PJ O'Rourke was a genius. He understood the fragility of democracy and the precious nature of our Grand Republic. He firmly reminded us not to take it for granted.
Fortunately, PJ lives on in his books and writings. Take a minute and pick up a copy of "Parliament of Whores" and try to tell me you haven't laughed and learned more, all at the same time.
Rest in peace, my friend. May God embrace you in the warmth of His love and comfort your loved ones.
The Republic is less without your wisdom, your humor, your wit, and your astute observations.
You will be dearly missed.
-Michael
Ramirez joins Las Vegas Review-Journal as daily editorial cartoonist
Michael's essay on coronavirusAdditional speakers we love: Michelle Balconi- co-author (with Dr. Art Laffer) of Let's Chat About Economics, inspires teachers and families to embrace the joy of economics.
|
How does Michael do it? Watch the evolution of idea to cartoon HERE |
Tatiana Rlabokin's video featuring Michael's artwork: