1. Jack Ohman is currently a contributing opinion columnist and cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle.
15 Facts About Jack Ohman
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Jack Ohman formerly worked for The Sacramento Bee and The Oregonian.
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Jack Ohman's work is syndicated nationwide to over 300 newspapers by Tribune Media Services.
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Jack Ohman was born on September 1,1960, in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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At age 17, Jack Ohman worked at the Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Minnesota.
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At age 19, Jack Ohman was the youngest cartoonist ever to be nationally syndicated.
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Jack Ohman worked at the Detroit Free Press starting in 1982; followed by work at The Oregonian in 1983.
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On October 29,2012, it was announced that Jack Ohman was stepping down as The Oregonian's editorial cartoonist; and was hired by The Sacramento Bee, in Sacramento, California following the death of Rex Babin.
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Jack Ohman was a regular art contributor to ABC News Nightline television show from 1984 until 1986.
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Jack Ohman was a regular contributor to Foreign Policy and Money magazines.
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Jack Ohman is the creator of the syndicated comic strip Mixed Media, which he drew from 1994 to 1999 and which appeared in over 170 newspapers.
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In 1986, through sales of copies of his cartoons about the space shuttle Challenger accident, Jack Ohman raised over $30,000 for the families of the astronauts.
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Jack Ohman is a noted fly fishing humorist, and has published four books on the subject, including the best-selling Fear of Fly Fishing, Get The Net, An Inconvenient Trout, and Angler Management, a book of essays.
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In 2006, Jack Ohman was voted one of the top five cartoonists in the United States by the readers of The Week magazine.
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In 2019, Jack Ohman was awarded an honorary degree by Portland State University, one of only two such degrees awarded that year.