Opinion
Opinion

Atlanta water crisis: What was Mike Luckovich thinking?

How the artist came up with his idea.
luckovich

Credit: Mike Luckovich

Credit: Mike Luckovich

luckovich
By
June 8, 2024
One of Mike Luckovich's sketches for what became his June 4 cartoon.

Credit: Mike Luckovich

icon to expand image

Credit: Mike Luckovich

Mondays are the toughest day for me to come up with ideas because I haven’t been focused on the news as much. The Atlanta water main breaks caught my attention because it was a big local story. Andre Dickens has been a good mayor. Competent politicians make my job harder, so this was actually the first cartoon I’ve done on the Atlanta mayor. He was a little slow addressing this crisis, but he seems to have gotten things under control for the time being.

Related
06/09 Mike Luckovich: Bright future
Placeholder Image

Credit: AJC

The AJC is there for Atlanta when it matters most
06/07 Mike Luckovich: Crowded bed

About the Author

Mike Luckovich is the award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has twice been recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, in 1995 and 2006. He was a Pulitzer finalist in 1986. Mike joined The Atlanta Constitution staff in 1989, and he rarely cleans his office.

Follow Mike Luckovich on facebookFollow Mike Luckovich on twitter
More Stories

Keep Reading

5Church Midtown's main dining room. (Courtesy of K5 Hospitality)

Credit: Handout

Midtown restaurant petitions against construction and more from metro Atlanta’s dining scene

A bartender takes a lead role at Palo Santo, Christmas comes early to an Inman Park neighborhood favorite and more happenings around metro Atlanta.

Washington's struggling economy takes another hit from the government shutdown

Washington's local economy has taken blows from a series of actions by the Trump administration, from the layoffs of federal workers to the ongoing law enforcement interventio

AJC analysis: Southwest Atlanta voters hand council presidency to Overstreet

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of the vote found Marci Overstreet dominating the Southwest Atlanta votes.

The Latest

"As we evolve into an ‘AI native world,’ access to learning itself is becoming democratized," writes Kimberly K. Estep. (Henry Taylor/AJC)
OPINION

AI has already impacted higher education. Here’s how our school is adapting.

OPINION

Mercy Care ‘Conspiracy of Compassion’ invites citizens to prioritize dignity

OPINION

Readers write

Featured

University of Georgia students are seen entering and leaving the main Library on the Athens campus on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025. (Miguel Martinez/AJC)

Credit: Miguel Martinez-Jimenez

UGA to pay $100K H-1B visa fee only ‘in exceptional circumstances’

The University of Georgia could soon limit the number of foreign workers it employs, a result of the $100,000 fee imposed on some H-1B visas.

2h ago

Georgia judges deal blow to ICE’s new mandatory detention policy

The ruling is a first-of-its-kind to come out of Georgia’s Middle District.

At the Cobb jail, a new kind of rehabilitation starts at the horse barn

Joshua Arp is one of two Cobb County jail detainees taking part of the sheriff’s office new equine therapy program meant to help him stay out of jail.