Lucius Curtis "Lute" Pease Jr. (March 27, 1869 – August 16, 1963), was an American editorial cartoonist and journalist.

He graduated from the Franklin Academy in Malone, New York, in 1887, and moved out west, where he worked for several years as a ranch-hand in California, miner in Colorado, horticultural salesman and bicycle shop manager in Oregon.

In 1912, Pease married artist Nell Christmas McMullin, and joined the Newark Evening News in 1914.

He received the Pulitzer Prize for a 1948 cartoon commenting on nationwide coal strikes by John L.

[3] Pease was also a painter, and his portrait of artist Henry Rankin Poore was displayed at the National Academy of Design.