John R Fischetti was an editorial cartoonist for the New York Herald Tribune and the Chicago Daily News.
10 Facts About John Fischetti
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John Fischetti received a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1969 and numerous awards from the National Cartoonists Society.
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The Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition Award, known as the John Fischetti Award, is named after him.
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At 19, John Fischetti began studying commercial art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he continued his education for three years.
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From 1951 to 1962 John Fischetti was a syndicated cartoonist for the Newspaper Enterprise Association.
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John Fischetti then joined the New York Herald Tribune, departing in 1967 when that paper folded.
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John Fischetti joined Bill Mauldin at the Chicago Sun-Times two years before he died of a heart attack in 1980.
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John Fischetti published a compilation of his cartoons Zinga Zinga Za in 1973.
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John Fischetti received the National Cartoonists Society's Editorial Cartoon Award in 1962,1963,1964, and 1965.
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The Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition Award, usually referred to as the John Fischetti Award, is given annually to a staff, syndicated or regularly published professional cartoonist for cartoons on current social and political subjects published in a daily or weekly newspaper or regularly published periodical in the United States.