David Horsey

David Horsey is a two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. After a long career at The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and six years as a political commentator for The Los Angeles Times, Horsey is now based at The Seattle Times. His work is syndicated by Tribune Content Agency.

Horsey’s well-received first novel, “Beach of Stars,” is now available on Amazon. He has published eleven books of cartoons, including his four most recent from KDP, “Refuge of Scoundrels” (2013), “Top of the Ticket” (2016) and “Drawing Apart” (2020) and “Unhinged USA” (2024).

With a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington, Horsey began his journalism career as a political reporter for The Daily Journal-American in Bellevue, Washington. In 1979, he went to work as an editorial cartoonist and columnist for the Post-Intelligencer. He was hired by the LA Times in 2012 where he produced “Top of the Ticket,” a thrice-weekly pairing of his political commentary and cartoons. In 2018, he moved to The Seattle Times. His career in Seattle and Los Angeles has taken him to national political party conventions, presidential primaries and debates, the Olympic Games, the Super Bowl, assignments in Europe, Japan and Mexico, and two extended stints working at the Hearst Newspapers Washington Bureau.

As a Rotary Foundation Scholar, Horsey earned an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from both Seattle University and the University of Kent and has been recognized as one the 150 most distinguished graduates of the University of Washington.