Mike Luckovich

By Mandy Schmitt

April 19, 2006 03:45 PM | Link to this

As always, thank you for your thoughtful commentary. You were terrific on NPR today. MAS

By Ceci

April 19, 2006 03:53 PM | Link to this

Mr. Luckovich, Congratulations on your Pulizter Prize. You were great on NPR and I enjoy your cartoons. My favorite cartoon was the one of the Statue Of Liberty crying while a plane was going toward the World Trade Center. It was very poignant. Continue your good work.

By michael

April 19, 2006 04:05 PM | Link to this

I’m a big fan of editorial cartooning, but was not familiar with your work until today and your Fresh Air interview. Now you’ve got at least one new fan.

By Midori

April 19, 2006 04:23 PM | Link to this

dag nab it!!

I missed it.

Fortunately, Fresh Air archives its interviews.

I’m so very, very happy for you Mike.

Your toons makes one laugh AND think.

By audrey

April 19, 2006 04:35 PM | Link to this

I heard you on NPR today while in my car and couldn’t wait to get home and check your site. All I can say is WOW…..you know how to drive a point home. We have so many people who are too lazy to read a newspaper article, but you can get a point across quickly. Can’t wait to see more, and thank you.

By Mad As Zell

April 19, 2006 05:23 PM | Link to this

Congratulations, Mike on winning the Pulitzer Prize. Unfortunately, it’s the anger of supposed “neo-cons” like me who may have helped “pinkos” like you become stronger and get recognition from your socialist handlers for your treasonous drawings and left-wing lunatic rantings that you and your communist cronies at manure-stained propaganda rags like the Al-Jazeera Constitution like to masquerade in front of worshipping brainwashed subscribers and present to the rest of the rational world as “journalism”.

You pinkos are all probably so giddy about Lucko’s win and the supposed downfall of Bush and the GOP. You little commie Eurotrash-wannabe traitors had best enjoy this minor little victory by the evil left loons while it lasts, because come fall the American people are going to kick all of you little Al-Qadea loving traitors out on your a** when Rove and the boys unleash hell’s fury on you little pinko sissies and the GOP solidfies their permanent majority in real-American politics, not the U.N.-Eurotrash-wannabe outpost that you little bin Laden- worshipping punks have tried to make Washington. Sayonara punks.

By Mad As Zell

April 19, 2006 05:36 PM | Link to this

And no, I’m not going to listen to NPR-National Pinko Radio to hear Lucko espouse his left-wing treasonous propaganda about why the U.S. should wave the white flag in Iraq and why the U.S. shouldn’t bomb the Iranians back to the stone age, or better yet, bomb them back to that goo that “intelligent” life formed from in the era before the prehistoric era. The same Iranians who are trying to join the lunatic nuclear club so that they can wipe Israel off the face of the earth and kill as many Americans as possible, in America.

By Wade

April 19, 2006 05:41 PM | Link to this

Mike, Heard you on fresh air today. Interesting and enjoyable. I’m a new fan. Congrats on the PP. Keep pushin the limit. Wade, Mt Airy md

By getalife

April 19, 2006 05:54 PM | Link to this

Looking at the out of town traffic, I would say you did pimp your blog.

When you look at “Mad as Zell” you can tell the right are angry and they should be. More like “Sad as Hell”.

By Mad As Zell

April 19, 2006 05:56 PM | Link to this

You little atheist communist pigs should know what hell is, since you don’t believe in God.

Religion doesn’t belong in the public square. This is a democracy, not a theocracy.*

You godless little punks would love nothing more than for America to turn and devoutly worship at the altar of satan and its disciples.

satan- a crossdressing demon child that was created from the left-loon Democrap party commie transvestite genes of Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.

It’s Democrappers like these (and our hometown staff of terror-loving pinko, commie traitors at the Al-Jazeera Constitution) that are crashing America into the rocks of spineless anything-goes moral decay.

By Kathy Salle

April 19, 2006 06:00 PM | Link to this

Hi, Mike!

I am a great fan, and I am thrilled that you won a second Pulitzer! Plus, a lucky break put me in my car this afternoon, so I heard your interview on NPR. It was very enjoyable! I love your wit and your art, and I, like Rummy himself, have lots of your Rummies (and Cheneys) hanging in my bathroom! Best wishes, Kathy Salle

By Jesus

April 19, 2006 06:05 PM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By Olaus

April 19, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this

Hey Mike, I grew up seeing your cartoons around in different places and I’ve always enjoyed them. I heard your NPR interview but didn’t make the connection between you and your work until i got online and looked at a bunch of it. Keep it up, you always manage to say more with a drawing and a few words than most can get across with a full media blitz.

By Mad As Zell

April 19, 2006 07:27 PM | Link to this

getalife: You should change your name to get-a-spine, a name that would represent the spineless godless, anti-American, Eurotrash-wannabe, terror-loving, pinko, left-wing, communist, whine-drinking, limburger-cheese-eating, atheist traitor-movement really well.

Getaspine, have you ever considered running for a leadership post in that movement. I’m sure that you would make a good Democrat.

By clark

April 19, 2006 07:50 PM | Link to this

^^Someone seem a little angry

By elizabeth

April 19, 2006 10:02 PM | Link to this

Congratulations, Mike. I heard you on Fresh Air today and just had to check out your blog. I also like editorial cartoons and think you do a great job. All the best, Elizabeth W.

By Tom McCarthy

April 19, 2006 10:31 PM | Link to this

Hey Mike,

I figure you’re hearing from lots of long-lost acquaintances, “relatives,” and sniper-wanna-bes lately, so I thought, “What the hell.”

Congrats on the big prize, of course. Though it does seem to come along with the thoughtful commentary of “Mad as Zell” and other friends from his ward in the sanitarium. If one had to choose, it would be a close call.

Well, thank the fictitious deity that I’ve done nothing worthwhile in my life. Now I can simply tell people that I know a famous person who, I’m pretty sure, vaguely remembers me. You spineless, godless, anti-American, terror-loving, pinko, left-wing, communist, whine[sic]-drinking, limburger-cheese-eating, atheistterror-loving, Pulitzer-Prize winning bastard.

My best, Tom McCarthy

By Doug Wall

April 19, 2006 10:36 PM | Link to this

Congratulations on having been proferred an award which has now been rendered impotent by virtue of this application. Why indeed. Now go get a new pen, because your job’s not done. You now have to apply all of the names of all the victims of 9/11, including the passengers of the planes, and arrange them in such a manner as to spell out “BECAUSE!” Then you can take a break.

By JC

April 19, 2006 10:38 PM | Link to this

Great interview Mike. You have a new fan. Whats with that mad as zell guy? It must hurt to be so angry. Why don’t you join the marines and go kill some al’qadea. It’s IDEOLOGY that causes all of this. Your rantings just show how sad and ignorant persons with your point of veiw are. Wake up dork. It’s not about dem’s and gop, it’s about saving our asses because we’ve screwed this planet up so bad it’s gonna kill us all off sooner than you think.

By Tom McCarthy

April 19, 2006 10:56 PM | Link to this

Clarification: Contrary to my typo, I wasn’t claiming that you’re a lover of athiestterror, of course. That would be foolish.

By Fred

April 20, 2006 01:28 AM | Link to this

Hey Mike, Congratulations to you and the Journal-Constitution on the PULITZER! I’m in the Bronx and have an enlarged copy of “WHY?” on my kitchen wall which I pause before every day: I know three of the sacrifice-ees of this unimaginable war, including Casey Sheehan. Bless you for championing the individual sacrifices with your painstaking and imaginative contribution to America.

Fred Schminke The Bronx, New York

P.S.: Joseph Pulitzer is buried here in The Bronx at the Woodlawn cemetery. (See “Woodlawn Remembers,” by Edward F. Bergman, p. 112; North County Books, 1988.) A brief quotation: “It was a Pulitzer newspaper campaign [“The World”] which raised the money to erect the Statue of Liberty by public subscription; each donor got his name listed in Pulitzer’s ‘World.’ Not entirely coincidentally, the campaign sold papers. Pulitzer’s constant purpose was to sell more papers in order to crusade for good government. ‘First fill the pews,’ he said, ‘then preach.’” There is a cartoon incuded in the entry. Here is the ironic caption: “Pulitzer abandoned his journalistic standards when he competed with W. R. Hearst to provoke the 1898 Spanish-American War, which Secretary of State John Hay called ‘a splendid little war.’ The real war, opservers noted, was the circulation war between Pulitzer’s ‘World’ and Hearst’s ‘Journal.’ Pulitzer introduced a cartoon, ‘The Yellow Kid,’ soon copied by Hearst, which gave birth to the phrase ‘yellow journalism.’” [Fox “News” anyone?]

By WashingtonState

April 20, 2006 01:42 AM | Link to this

Mad As Zell,

What’s your problem? I like limberger cheese. Why don’t you chill some wine and relax with some of that cheese.

By Hugh

April 20, 2006 07:07 AM | Link to this

Mike, thanks for the great cartoons..Continue to “beat-up” on those Republicants. Currently using your “WHY?” as my computer desktop… several co-workers have said “that is sad”… indeed it is.

By Prisca

April 20, 2006 08:17 AM | Link to this

You (Luckovich) are the best cartoonist I see (read)—a genius. We are so lucky that you are in Atlanta, and the rest of the country is lucky that your work is syndicated.

By Jen

April 20, 2006 03:18 PM | Link to this

Enjoyed your interview on Fresh Air. I was listening in the car on the way home and the more you talked about your cartoons the more I knew I had to check them out. Your work is truly terrific and really speaks to me. Congrats on winning your second Pulitzer. You have a new fan in Michigan.

By Larry Jordan

April 20, 2006 08:28 PM | Link to this

Loved the interview. Now, I’m looking for the cartoon.

By donise

April 20, 2006 08:29 PM | Link to this

Congrats, Mike, I’ve lived in four states, subscribed to four major newspapers and you are truly the best of them all. I love your cutting edge and wit.

By One who knows better

April 21, 2006 01:21 PM | Link to this

It’s interesting to read all the right-wing justifcation for the mess we’re in in Iraq, as well as the more recent epiphany of faulty intelligence that the Administration is now blaming it on. But, it just isn’t so. I worked for a member of the Senate during the months preceeding the invasion of Iraq (my boss was on the SASC), and while the intelligence communities KNEW there was no WMD, no ties to Al Qaeda, no threat posed to the US, the Administration hyped the war drums and saber rattling so much that the invasion was an easy sell - despite the facts. We’ve now embarked on something we, as a nation, said we’d never do (at least publicly) - pre-emptive strikes, deposing elected heads of state (even though it may have been a rigged election), and political assasination (Saddam’s sons - and I don’t care how bad they may have been). The saying goes that those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Perhaps the Bush Administration and all the right wing supporters need a history lesson. Case in point, see if this sounds familiar: “Why of course the people don’t want war… But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship… Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.” - Hermann Goering, Nazi leader at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II

By sjwilt

April 23, 2006 05:40 AM | Link to this

Dear Mr. Kuckovich,

Your name was (blush)unfamiliar to me until I read about yuor winning the Pulitzer prize. Congratulations!

I found the “why” carton very moving.

Thank you for the work that you do.

By Ben

April 26, 2006 05:53 PM | Link to this

“WHY” all I can say is “BECAUSE” BECAUSE, Two Planes hit the WTC 09-11-2001 BECEAUSE, Over 3,000+ AMERICANS were killed by terrorist that day BECEAUSE, We seen human beings jump to their death that day BECEAUSE, We see relief aid workers(Someone’s Father,Brother,Son) charred and hanging from a bridge and thugs dancing around BECEAUSE, We see an American in an orange jump suit on his knees and hands bound behind his back While some SCUM/THUG pulls out a dagger and start sawing off his head while he screams for mercy
BECEAUSE, YOU can’t remember any of these things