Pete Wagner (born January 26, 1955) is an American political cartoonist, activist, author, scholar and caricature artist whose work has been published in over 300 newspapers and other periodicals.

Wagner was influenced by Sanders to work in an acerbic, hard-hitting style of political cartooning with connections to punk subculture.

[1][2][3] Despite the uncompromising tone, several of the public figures featured in his cartoons asked for copies of the drawing for themselves or their office, such as Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee J. Martin Klotsche, United States Senator Paul Wellstone and one mayor of Madison.

[citation needed] As of 2021, he still works as a caricature artist performing at private events, as an entertainer and drawing commissioned pieces from photographs.

[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] He protested speaking engagements by many leading conservative of the time, such as Anita Bryant, Ronald Reagan and Jerry Falwell in ways that attracted media attention.