Mike Luckovich Biography
Mike Luckovich has been working for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1989 as an editorial cartoonist. He is the 2005 Reuben winner, the top award for the year’s cartoonist by the National Cartoonists Society, and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes.
Mike Luckovich Age
Luckovich was born on January 28, 1960, Seattle, Washington
Mike Luckovich Wife
Luckovich and his wife, Margo, have four children: John, Lucy, Mickey, and Michaela
Mike Luckovich Early Life and Education
Born in Seattle, Washington, he attended Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho before moving to Sheldon High School in Eugene, Oregon, where he graduated with a degree in political science from Washington University in 1982. He was “one of two non-Jewish ZBT frat participants” on campus while a student at UW. For two years after graduation, while working as an insurance salesman, Luckovich sold freelance cartoons to the Everett, Washington newspaper.
Mike Luckovich Career
Luckovich started his career with South Carolina’s The Greenville News in 1984 and went later that year to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. He started his career in 1989 with the Journal-Constitution of Atlanta that continues to this day.
Luckovich began his “SuperZeros” comic strip in 2000, about a couple of dim-witted superheroes. Tribune Media Service spread it and lasted a year.
He remarked on his cartooning style and how it changed after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in a September 2001 interview: I normally attempt to use humor to get across my point with my cartoons. You just couldn’t use humor after Sept. 11. So enormous was the tragedy, you couldn’t be funny. It’s almost like using a separate portion of your brain to create cartoons. I was just attempting to come up with pictures expressing the feelings I felt and attempting to concentrate on various parts of the tragedy that I believed was crucial.
In that same interview, Luckovich cited Jeff MacNelly as his “biggest editorial cartoonist role model” and Mort Drucker as his “first hero.”
Mike Luckovich Awards
Luckovich won several awards while in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1995 and the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. Luckovich also received the Editorial Cartoon Award for 2001 from the National Cartoonists Society, with additional nominations for 1998 and 2002. For Editorial Cartooning, he won the 2008 National Journalism Awards. In 2018, the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site awarded Luckovich with the Advancing American Democracy Award.
Mike Luckovich Controversy
He attracted a lot of reaction when one day after his death the journal cartoonist drew a cartoon portraying the death of Michael Jackson. The comic strip illustrated Heaven and Hell’s leaders flipping a coin to see where Pop’s late King would be after his death. Many individuals considered the cartoon offensive, including Jackson’s family, friends, and supporters.
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