Article: The mind of a cartoonist: how weird is it? CE picked Matt Davies's brain to discover how he cranks out Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoons.(Special Report)(Interview)

When Matt Davies was a kid, he used to sit in the back of class and draw funny pictures of his teachers. The caricatures always got him into trouble, but they also got him something else--lots of laughs. "I'd get in trouble, but [the teachers would] be kind of laughing too.... I knew I was on to something," Davies said. He was right. Today, Davies is one of the top political cartoonists in the country. His cartoons appear in dozens of major newspapers every day, commenting on everything from the presidential election to racism. Recently, Davies won journalism's top honor--a Pulitzer Prize--for his work.

The award was especially sweet for Davies, who works for The ...

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