Walt Carr

Walt Carr (born August 26, 1932) is an African-American cartoonist and illustrator known for his political cartoons on the Black perspective.

Carr's work has been published in such magazines as Playboy, Ebony, Negro Digest/Black World, Jet, and Players; as well as in numerous African-American newspapers, including The Washington Informer,

Early life Born in Baltimore, Carr also spent part of his childhood in Philadelphia. Carr developed an interest in comics and art at an early age, even taking classes at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Both of his parents were politically active, even being arrested at a demonstration when Carr was a young teen. This family engagement with politics fed Carr's later work in the field of political cartoons.

In 1993, he retired from his government job. Publications that ran his strips included New York's The Village Voice and Cherry Hill, New Jersey's Courier-Post.

In 2019, Carr published Just Us (a play on the word "justice"),

Personal life Carr lives in Columbia, Maryland, with his wife, Queen.