Walt Handelsman

Walt Handelsman at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.

Walt Handelsman is the nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist for Newsday. He joined the paper in February of 2001.

Before that, Walt worked for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans from 1989-2001, The Scranton (PA) Times from 1985-1989, and a chain of 13 award-winning Baltimore and Washington suburban weeklies from 1982-1985.

Walt, 49, a graduate of The University of Cincinnati, creates cartoons that appear in over 250 newspapers around the country and internationally. They are frequently reprinted in Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune.

In early 2006, Walt taught himself Flash animation and now creates animated editorial cartoons that are viewed by zillions of fans across the Internet.

He is the winner of many local and national awards for cartooning excellence, including the Pulitzer Prize, two National Headliner Awards, the Society of Professional Journalists Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and The Scripps Howard National Journalism award.

He is the author of seven collections of his editorial cartoons as well as a children's book published in 1995.

He lives with his wife, Jodie, and two sons, James and Billy, on Long Island.