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May 2006

A Reuben is more than a sandwich

By Lea Donosky | Wednesday, May 31, 2006, 04:05 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The AJC’s shy, retiring editorial cartoonist is too modest to tell you this himself, so I will.

Mike Luckovich has won the National Cartoonist Society’s 60th annual Reuben Award as the top cartoonist of the year.

Mike, who last month won his second Pulitzer Prize, is a somewhat unusual choice for the Reuben which usually goes to comics cartoonists rather than editorial cartoonists.

The award was given last weekend in Chicago.

The other four Reuben finalists this year were comic cartoonists Bill Amend (“FoxTrot”/Universal Press Syndicate), Dave Coverly (“Speed Bump”/Creators), Brian Crane (“Pickles”/Washington Post Writers Group), and Dan Piraro (“Bizarro”/King Features Syndicate), according to Editor & Publisher.

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Good news out of Iraq

By Mike Luckovich | Wednesday, May 31, 2006, 06:35 AM

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Where the boys are

By Mike Luckovich | Friday, May 26, 2006, 07:05 PM

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Good citizenship

By Mike Luckovich | Thursday, May 25, 2006, 07:26 PM

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Border security

By Mike Luckovich | Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 07:33 PM

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Mike visits Walter Reed Hospital

By Mike Luckovich | Friday, May 19, 2006, 10:35 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Mike Luckovich and three other illustrators recently visited wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. They went to talk to the troops and also to draw for them.

It never came up whether these guys supported the war or not, and I didn’t feel like that was my place to get into a discussion about that. These guys are recovering from wounds, and they’re going to have to deal with that issue and come to their own conclusions on that… . When you visit these guys - and they’re kids- most of them, 19, 20, 21, it was never to discuss whether the war was right or wrong. It was just to be there for them and to thank them for serving their country. Read the full account of Mike’s visit

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A moving picture?

By Mike Luckovich | Friday, May 19, 2006, 07:36 PM

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Trusting Bush

By Mike Luckovich | Thursday, May 18, 2006, 10:01 PM

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Miss Liberty on the border

By Mike Luckovich | Thursday, May 18, 2006, 06:41 AM

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Keeping our guard up

By Mike Luckovich | Tuesday, May 16, 2006, 07:20 PM

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Problem-solving

By Mike Luckovich | Monday, May 15, 2006, 06:59 PM

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Facelifting the music

By Mike Luckovich | Friday, May 12, 2006, 08:56 PM

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Presidential rabbit ears

By Mike Luckovich | Thursday, May 11, 2006, 07:15 PM

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Bush’s popularity dive

By Mike Luckovich | Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 10:30 PM

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Letter from Iran

By Mike Luckovich | Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 06:12 AM

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CIA shake-up

By Mike Luckovich | Monday, May 8, 2006, 09:43 PM

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Mission incomprehensible

By Mike Luckovich | Monday, May 8, 2006, 09:29 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Stephen Colbert’s barbed harpoons got all the attention at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. But that was inside the banquet hall.

Outside, in the corridors of the Washington Hilton, two men named Mike stalked George Clooney, watched Henry Kissinger’s back and, well, if there was excessive alcohol consumption, it came much later.

Mikes Luckovich and Peters, editorial cartoonists for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Dayton Daily News, respectively, arrived early for the big Newsweek cocktail party before the dinner. Both were carrying the tools of their favorite prank: a phone cord borrowed from their hotel phones and dark glasses. Luckovich takes up the story:

George Clooney came in with his father, so I talked to him briefly. George Clooney was like the main celebrity at the dinner, so the room quickly filled up with people, various media, politicians and others that I didn’t recognize. It was getting hot, so Mike and I left the cocktail party and went outside.

People were still coming in, so Mike and I put our dark glasses on and put the phone cords in our ears and then snaked them behind and into our jackets. And we stood outside and pretended we were security.

We were on each side of the door, and we kept having to remind each other not to smile. The party was winding down and the dinner was getting close to starting. When George Clooney and his father left, Mike and I got right in behind them and pretended we were their security. We still had our dark glasses and the phone cords in our ears.

So we were going down the hallway toward the dinner, and Clooney and his father and numerous hangers-on turned into this curtained room. Mike and I went in, but the real security kicked us out after about 10 seconds.

People heading toward the dinner all saw George Clooney go into this room, so there was a mass of people outside this curtained area, so Mike and I stood outside the opening and pretended that we were security and continued to remain unsmiling. We were waiting for Clooney to come out; we were going to follow him again. But Henry Kissinger walked out. He said to Mike and me, “Can you take me to the security area?” (You had to go through a metal detector to get to the dinner.)

So we said, “Certainly, sir.” So we became Henry Kissinger’s security. It was just the two of us, right behind Kissinger, right at his back. He’s walking down this hallway to get to the metal detector to go into the banquet hall, and a crowd surrounded him and began taking his picture. So after a few seconds, I yelled out, “No more photos!” in a very authoritative voice, and everyone stopped taking photos.

Here’s this goof — I’m wearing tortoise-shell sunglasses and a phone cord out my ear, and they’re thinking, “OK, that’s his security.” So we continued to walk and we got up to the metal detector, and Kissinger went through it and proceeded into the banquet hall. We let Henry go and then went on to the next thing. We pretended we were security at the metal detector — telling people they had to take their shoes off and stuff like that.

Nobody did, believe it or not.

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