Rob Tornoe is a cartoonist and writer, and is one of the last remaining sports cartoonists on staff at a newspaper. His sports cartoons appear in '' The Philadelphia Inquirer''. He is also a political cartoonist and his cartoons appear in WHYY-FM, The Press of Atlantic City', The News Journal, and others. He has drawn political

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s ranging from

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to '' Peanuts''. In addition to cartooning, Tornoe writes for

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and Poynter Institute about the media and the business of syndication.

Education

Tornoe graduated from

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Awards and recognition

Tornoe has won several awards for his editorial cartooning, including "Best Cartoon" by the New Jersey chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in 2007 and second place in 2006. On July 9, 2008,

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Jim McDermott (D-Seattle) used one of Tornoe's cartoons as a backdrop for his criticism of officials of the

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administration and what he described as their true motivations for the Iraq War:

Controversy

On April 9, 2008, Tornoe posted a cartoon on Politicker's New Jersey website depicting a yarmulked, maniacally smiling Rep. Steve Rothman (D-9) about to wield a meat cleaver on Bergen County Democratic Chairman

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's private parts. Meanwhile,

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Frank Lautenberg, also wearing a yarmulke, is shown holding Ferriero down for the procedure. The cartoon poked fun at Rothman's move to keep Ferriero from endorsing Rep. Rob Andrews in his bid for Lautenberg's Senate seat, but both the ''New Jersey Jewish Standard'' and the ''New Jersey Jewish News''New Jersey Jewish News
as retrieved April 17, 2008. reported criticisms of the cartoon as

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References

External links

*
Rob Tornoe
profile at the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists website
''PolitickerNJ''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tornoe, Rob Living people American editorial cartoonists American comic strip cartoonists The Kubert School alumni Artists from Newark, New Jersey New Jersey culture 1978 births