If Rall and his kind are squealing, Bush is on the right track.
If Rall and his kind are squealing, Bush is on the right track.
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About Ted Rall
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...
In 1997, Universal Press Syndicate began distributing Rall’s weekly opinion column, dubbed "Op-Ed Writing for Americans Under 65"...
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...
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