What I don't understand is why it has gotten play in ostensibly major magazines and journals over the years.
Who's idiot nephew is he?
Because he hates the conservative right. That's all. He give the American-hating, Marxist left what they want.
He's a favorite of Pinch "Kill the American" Sulzberger, publisher of the NY Times.
You, sir, just named it! This guy is just NOT FUNNY! His drawing skills are pitiful,
and there just is NO humor in his work. It's gotta be a case of Nepotism at work.
I saw O'Reilly grilling him, and he never let the smirk leave his face
while he squirmed trying to defend himself.
Ted Rall was born in Cambridge MA in 1963, raised in Kettering OH and graduated from high school in 1981. His first cartoons were published in the Kettering-Oakwood (OH) Times in 1980. He majored in physics at Columbia University’s School of Engineering from 1981 until 1984, where he drew cartoons for the Columbia Daily Spectator.
In 1984, Rall was expelled from Columbia Engineering for both disciplinary and academic reasons. Giving up cartooning, he became a trader/trainee at Bear, Stearns brokerage firm and a loan officer at the Industrial Bank of Japan. He also moonlighted as a telemarketer and taxi driver.
Inspired after meeting guerrilla artist Keith Haring in 1986, Rall began posting his cartoons on New York City streets. He eventually picked up 12 clients through self-syndication. In 1990, he quit Wall Street to return to Columbia, where he graduated with honors in history in 1991. Later that year, Rall’s cartoons were signed for national syndication by the now-defunct San Francisco Chronicle Syndicate. He moved to Universal Press Syndicate in 1996.
His cartoons now appear in more than a hundred publications, including the Baltimore Sun, Atlanta Constitution, Toronto Star, Philadelphia Daily News, Newark Star-Ledger, Los Angeles Times, Z Magazine, The Nation, Harrisburg (PA) Patriot-News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sacramento News & Review, San Jose Mercury-News, Des Moines Register, St. Paul Pioneer-Press, Asbury Park Press, San Francisco Examiner and New York Times. Despite his original drawing style, Rall is a traditionalist in the vein of Thomas Nast, who saw editorial cartoons as a vehicle for change more than a source of humorous gags about current events. His focus is on issues important to young adults, such as un- and underemployment, the environment and pop culture, but also comments on political and social trends.
In 1997, Universal Press Syndicate began distributing Rall’s weekly opinion column, dubbed "Op-Ed Writing for Americans Under 65". It has appeared in The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Amsterdam News, Omaha Reader, Detroit Metro Times, San Francisco Examiner, International Herald-Tribune, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He is also a staff writer for P.O.V. magazine.
Aside from exposure in the mainstream media, Rall’s cartoons and writing appears in such alternative venues as The Met in Dallas, Kansas City New Times, Sacramento News and Tribune, Maximum Rocknroll, Hypno, Against The Current, The Progressive Populist and Shrimp Cocktail.
Two early collections of cartoons, Waking Up In America (St. Martin’s Press, 1992) and All The Rules Have Changed (Rip Off Press, 1995) are now out of print. Rall’s critically-acclaimed first graphic novel, Real Americans Admit: The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done! (NBM, 1996), collects real-life stories of people’s worst deeds in comic form, and was the first-place winner of the first annual 1997 Firecracker Alternative Book Award.
A book of essays and cartoons about generational politics, Revenge of the Latchkey Kids (Workman Publishing, 1998), received widespread critical acclaim. Workman published a Page-a-Day calendar of his work in 1998, as well as a 1999 wall calendar. Rall’s second graphic novel, My War With Brian (NBM, 1998) has just hit stores.
Rall received first place in the 1995 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for Cartoons. The award, founded in 1968, recognizes distinguished work designed to help the disadvantaged. And in 1996, he was one of three Finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. He was the New York Times’ most reprinted cartoonist in 1997, and began doing color strips for both Time Magazine and Fortune Magazine in 1998. He was awarded the 1998 Deadline Club Award by the Society of Professional Journalists for his cartoons, and his web site, www.rall.com, was picked as a Yahoo! "Pick of the Week."