Jack Ohman

Early life and education Jack Ohman was born on September 1, 1960, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Ohman worked as a political aide for the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) during his high school years in Minnesota. His first daily newspaper job was at The Columbus Dispatch, where he was hired in 1981.

Ohman has a B.A. degree (1999) from Portland State University. and was subsequently hired by The Sacramento Bee, in Sacramento, California following the death of Rex Babin.

Ohman was a regular art contributor to ABC News Nightline television show from 1984 until 1986. On September 26, 2023, he was hired as a contributing opinion editor for the San Francisco Chronicle. the 2010 Society of Professional Journalists Award, and the 2012 Scripps Howard Journalism Award. Ohman was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, where the judges cited his entry for his "clever daily cartoons and a distinctive Sunday panel on local issues in which his reporting was as important as his artistic execution." He was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for "cartoons that convey wry, rueful perspectives through sophisticated style that combines bold line work with subtle colors and textures."

In 2006, Ohman was voted one of the top five cartoonists in the United States by the readers of The Week magazine.

In 2019, Ohman was awarded an honorary degree by Portland State University, one of only two such degrees awarded that year.

In 2026, Ohman was awarded the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.

Books Back to the '80s (1986) Drawing Conclusions (1987) Fear of Fly Fishing (1988) Fishing Bass-Ackwards (1991) Why Johnny Can't Putt... (1993) Media Mania (1995) Do I Have To Draw You a Picture? (1997) Get the Net! (1998) An Inconvenient Trout (2008) Angler Management (2009) Illustrator, Blowing Smoke: The Wild and Whimsical World of Cigars (1997), Brian McConnachie, author