Kevin Siers

Kevin Siers (pronounced Sires He was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

Biography Siers was born in Minnesota around 1954. In elementary school, a fifth-grade teacher recognized his talent for drawing and encouraged him to create a comic book. Teachers at his high school continued to encourage his development.

He was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for "his thought-provoking cartoons drawn with a sharp wit and bold artistic style." He divides his workday into three parts; the first part of his day is spent researching and assembling ideas, in the second phase he doodles the ideas and determines which combinations have the most potential, and he finalizes his daily cartoon by mid-day. He is the only local cartoonist in the Carolinas producing daily cartoons. His work is syndicated by Cagle Cartoons.

On July 11, 2023, he was let go by the owner of the Charlotte Observer, McClatchy Newspapers. The editorial cartoonists of two other newspapers owned by McClatchy, Jack Ohman at the Sacramento Bee and Joel Pett at the Lexington Herald-Leader, also received notice on that day.