Laughing Out Loud: The Provocative History of Political Cartoons in America from Ben Franklin to Donald Trump

presented by Mike Thompson , in partnership with the Coachella Valley Journalists Association

Mike Thompson, the longtime editorial cartoonist and animator with USA Today and the Detroit Free Press, is the winner of the 2017 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for cartooning; a two-time winner of the Society of Professional Journalists’ national award for cartooning; and winner of the Overseas Press Club Award, the National Press Foundation Award, the National Headliner Award, the Scripps Howard Award, and the national Women in Communications Clarion Award. He has been a finalist four times for the Pulitzer Prize. 

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