Kevin Siers (pronounced Sires[1]) is an American editorial cartoonist formerly working for The Charlotte Observer and is syndicated by Cagle Cartoons.
[5] In elementary school, a fifth-grade teacher recognized his talent for drawing and encouraged him to create a comic book.
[5] He was working as an iron ore miner in Minnesota when he began to draw editorial cartoons during a layoff.
"[4] Siers was the third cartoonist from The Observer to win the Pulitzer, for "thought-provoking cartoons drawn with a sharp wit and bold artistic style.
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.