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2 unusual facts about Michael Ramirez


The Commercial Appeal

In 1994, The Commercial Appeal won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning by Michael Ramirez.

Threatening the President of the United States

In July 2003, the Los Angeles Times published a Sunday editorial cartoon by conservative Michael Ramirez that depicted a man pointing a gun at President Bush’s head; it was a takeoff on the 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Eddie Adams that showed South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner at point-blank range.



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