Ward Sutton creates editorial cartoons for The Boston Globe. In 2018, he was awarded the prestigious Herblock Prize for his work for the Globe.

Sutton also creates cartoons for The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Politico, The Nation, The Onion, The Village Voice and The Nib.

In grade school, Sutton’s caricature of then-President Jimmy Carter was put up in a display case and the parent of another student asked if he’d like to contribute cartoons to the town’s newspaper, The Edina Sun. He said yes and never looked back.

Sutton continued cartooning through high school and college (during which time he won a Minnesota Page One Award).

He began cartooning professionally in the early 1990s for alt-weekly papers such as City Pages and The Twin Cities Reader in Minneapolis, then The Stranger, The Seattle Weekly and The Rocket in Seattle.

In 1995, he moved to New York City and began working for national publications, both as a cartoonist and as an illustrator, earning acclaim from American Illustration, The Society of Illustrators, The Society of Publication Designers, and The Society For News Design.

“Sutton Impact: The Political Cartoons of Ward Sutton” was published in 2005, and a collection of his Onion cartoons was published in 2016.

Sutton currently lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with his family.