Vaughn Shoemaker
Illustration — Still Racing His Shadow, 1947 Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon Vaughn Richard Shoemaker (August 11, 1902 Chicago, Illinois – August 18, 1991 Carol Stream, Illinois) was an American editorial cartoonist. He won the 1938 and 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and created the character John Q. Shoemaker started his career at the Chicago Daily News and spent 22 years there, and was the chief cartoonist between 1925 and 1952. His 1938 Pulitzer cartoon for the paper was The Road Back, featuring a World War I soldier marching back to war.
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Vaughn Shoemaker
Vaughn Shoemaker · Chicago Daily News, September 6, 1946. Reprinted in The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), September 11, 1946, via Newspapers.com. · Public domain
- Born
- 1902 · Chicago.
- Died
- 1991
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- United States
- Occupation
- cartoonist · journalist
- Honours
- Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
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Illustration — Still Racing His Shadow, 1947 Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon Vaughn Richard Shoemaker (August 11, 1902 Chicago, Illinois – August 18, 1991 Carol Stream, Illinois) was an American editorial cartoonist. He won the 1938 and 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and created the character John Q. Shoemaker started his career at the Chicago Daily News and spent 22 years there, and was the chief cartoonist between 1925 and 1952. His 1938 Pulitzer cartoon for the paper was The Road Back, featuring a World War I soldier marching back to war.
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Vaughn Shoemaker (1902–1991) was an American cartoonist and journalist. The cartoonist was born in Chicago.
Works by Vaughn Shoemaker are held at Art Institute of Chicago. The cartoonist received Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
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The 1947 winning cartoon for the paper was Still Racing His Shadow, featuring "new wage demands" of workers trying to outrun his shadow "cost of living". He went on to work for the New York Herald Tribune between 1956 and 1961, and both the Chicago American, and Chicago Today from 1961 to 1971.
• Illustration — New Deal Lexicon, ink, 1935. • Illustration — alt=Ink drawing of two men, one stands stoically behind in a light suit that says "atom for peace" while the other lunges forward with grotesque hands and face with a shirt that says "atom for war." Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?, ink and crayon, Dallas Museum of Art. • Illustration — alt=Ink drawing of a cartoon plane swooping to the left, leaving a big cloud of smoke that says "wise-cracks" Smoke Screen, ink and crayon, Dallas Museum of Art. • Illustration — alt=Ink drawing of a woman wearing a dark dress with light stars, staring down and to the left towards a large valentine that says "still forever yours." There is a framed portrait of Eisenhower in the background, with hearts flying in the empty space. Valentine Awaited, ink and crayon, Dallas Museum of Art. • Illustration — Man of Destiny (Eisenhower), ink and crayon, 1952, Dallas Museum of Art. • Illustration — Man of Destiny (Stevenson), ink and crayon, 1952, Dallas Museum of Art.
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Vaughn Shoemaker was born on 11 August 1902.
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Vaughn Shoemaker died on 18 August 1991.
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