Monthly Archives for August 2012


August 5: On the Road to Moscow

On 5 August 1921, the New York World published Rollin Kirby’s (1875-1952) “On the Road to Moscow.” This was the first editorial cartoon to win a Pulitzer Prize. It was one of three Pulitzer Prize’s Kirby would win. After having established himself as a political cartoonist during World War I, Kirby used his pen to […]