Ted Rall

Ted Rall (born 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a political cartoonist, author, and editorialist, known for his cutting-edge leftist politics and editorial cartoons about political and social misbehaviour. He has a distinctive style of drawing, with very simplistically drawn characters. Unlike many editorial cartoonists, his cartoons almost always appear in comic-strip format.

He attended Columbia University, where he contributed cartoons to the campus newspapers, and graduated in 1991 with a bachelor of arts in history. Rall says meeting Keith Haring in 1986 inspired him to pursue cartooning.

Rall has been harshly criticized in the media with regard to his cartoons. One in particular, the "Terror Widows" cartoon, ridiculed the apparent greed of widows of men who were killed in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. Rall, commenting on an appearance on Bill O'Reilly's television program, replied to the criticism: "I've done some bad cartoons before, and this is not one of them."

Publications

• Waking Up In America (1992), cartoon collection
• All The Rules Have Changed (1995), cartoon collection
• Real Americans Admit: The Worst Thing I've Ever Done! (1996), graphic novel
• My War With Brian (1998), graphic novel
• Revenge of the Latchkey Kids: An Illustrated Guide to Surviving the '90s and Beyond (1998)
• Search and Destroy (2001), cartoon collection
• 2024: A Graphic Novel (2001)
• Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists (2002), editor
• Gas War: The Truth Behind the American Occupation of Afghanistan (2002)

External link

• http://www.rall.com