Adam O. Zyglis (born July 9, 1982) is a

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-winning"Buffalo News cartoonist Adam Zyglis wins Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning", ''

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'', April 20, 2015

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who works for the ''

'' of

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,LoTempio, Susan (2007) "The (cartoonist's) pen is mightier than the sword", ''

'', March 15, 2007 where he replaced fellow Pulitzer Prize–winner

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, when Toles became the cartoonist for ''

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''. Zyglis is also nationally syndicated through Cagle Cartoons, Inc. He has also done

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work and caricatures and cartoons for the weekly alternative '' Artvoice''. Zyglis has won awards from the Associated College Press, and the

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, and has been nominated for several other national cartooning awards. He placed third in the 2007 and 2011 National Headliner Awards. In 2013, he won the

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, given by the

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. Zyglis was awarded the 2015

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for using, in the committee's citation, "strong images to connect with readers while conveying layers of meaning in few words. " Zyglis graduated from

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in 2004 with a

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in Computer Science and Math. He was Art Director and cartoonist for ''The Griffin'', Canisius's student newspaper. His work for ''The Griffin'' won him three national collegiate cartooning awards.

References

External links

Adamzyglis.com
1982 births Living people American editorial cartoonists Artists from Buffalo, New York Canisius College alumni Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning winners The Buffalo News Pulitzer Prize winners {{US-cartoonist-stub