Cartoonist Pett professional-in-residence

Joel Pett

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Joel Pett visits this week as a professional-in-residence.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and Bloomington native Joel Pett will visit Ernie Pyle Hall this week as the School of Journalism Roy W. Howard Professional-in-Residence.

Pett, on staff at the Lexington Herald-Leader since 1984, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoon in 2000. His cartoons have appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines nationwide, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Daily News, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today and Chicago Sun-Times.

This week, his chief activities will be speaking to classes, and Pett will dive in Tuesday by talking to adjunct lecturer Mike Leonard’s J200 class at 2:30, EP 210. Leonard, a (Bloomington) Herald-Times columnist, was Pett’s colleague when the cartoonist freelanced for the newspaper in the 1970s and 1980s.

Other class talks include:

• Associate professor Claude Cookman’s J210 class Wednesday, Ernie Pyle Auditorium, 11:15 a.m.
• Associate professor Steve Raymer’s J410 class Wednesday, EP 214, 1 p.m.
• Professor Jack Dvorak’s J410 class Thursday, EP 214, 2:30 p.m.

Pett will visit the Herald-Times, WFIU and the Indiana Daily Student during the week as well.

Check out Pett’s work at this archive on the Herald-Leader Web site.

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