Edward Bruce Tinsley IV (born 1958) is an American cartoonist best known for his satirical conservative comic strip Mallard Fillmore (1994–).
While in high school, he won a cartoon contest sponsored by Louisville's Voice newspaper chain, and began working as an editorial cartoonist at age 16.
While developing Mallard Fillmore for potential syndication under Kennedy's direction, Tinsley won a Reader's Digest Fellowship to Indiana University School of Journalism, and attended graduate school at Indiana University Bloomington.
[2] In 2006, Tinsley was arrested twice for driving while intoxicated, once in August and again in December, both Class A misdemeanors.
[3][4] After the December incident, he attacked the sentencing judge, Roderick McGillivray, in several of his comics.