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Michael Patrick Ramirez (born May 11, 1961) is an American cartoonist. His cartoons typically present conservative viewpoints. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. ==Life and career== Ramirez was born in Tokyo, Japan, to a Mexican American father and Japanese American mother. He graduated from the University of California, Irvine, in 1984 with a bachelor's degree. He has worked for ''The Commercial Appeal'' of Memphis for seven years and then for the ''Los Angeles Times''. In 1994, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. He again won the Pulitzer for editorial cartooning in 2008. He is a three-time winner of the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism in 1995, 1997 and 2007. He has also been awarded the 1996 Mencken Award for Best Editorial Cartoon. He is a regular contributor to ''USA Today'' and ''The Weekly Standard'', and his work has a subscription/distribution of over five hundred and fifty newspapers and magazines through Creators Syndicate. He is also the co-editor of the ''Investor's Business Daily'' editorial page. Ramirez initially planned to study medicine in college and considered journalism a hobby. He became seriously interested in that field when his first cartoon for the college newspaper, lampooning candidates for student office, had the student assembly demanding an apology. Ramirez was a regular guest on ''The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer''. He has been on ''CNN'', ''CNN International'', ''Fox News Sunday'', ''BBC Television'', ''BBC Radio'', ''NPR'', ''the Michael Reagan Show''. His cartoons have been featured on CNN, Fox News, ''The O'Reilly Factor'', and ''The Rush Limbaugh Show''. His work has been published in such publications as ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The New York Post'', ''Time Magazine'', ''National Review'' and ''US News and World Report''. His work can be seen daily in the pages of ''Investor's Business Daily'' on the Issues and Insights page and online at IBDeditorials.com/cartoons.〔(Political Cartoons & Opinion – Michael Ramirez – Editorial News – IBD – Investors.com )〕 He is the author of a new book, ''Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Ramirez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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