Comments on: Tom Batiuk is 2008 Pulitzer Prize Finalist

By: Jeff Darcy

Jeff Darcy — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:59:58 +0000

Congrats to Tom. If memory is correct it created some controversy among editorial cartoonist the last two times a comic strip won. While it seems logical that since it’s a cartoon, a comic strip would be put it the Editorial cartoon category. But couldn’t it also be put in the Fiction writing category or non-fiction? It seems to me that in this case that would make more sense. It’s an illustrated story being told in several chapters. That has more in common with a book than Editorial cartoon.

By: Dawn Douglass

Dawn Douglass — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:28:56 +0000

Good for him. Every one in eight women get breast cancer. Like it or not on the comics page, it IS a mainstream subject. As somebody sitting here with a fresh ten inch scar on my chest where a breast used to be, I have to say I’m glad that they honored his courage to do that series.

Posthumous kudos to Jay Kennedy for allowing it. I’m not sure all syndicates would have.

By: Charles Brubaker

Charles Brubaker — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:55:06 +0000

This would be the fourth strip to be considered for Pulitzer.

“For Better or For Worse” was a finalist in 1994. (Ironically, “Foob” lost to Mike Ramirez, this year’s winner)