Adam Zyglis

Adam Zyglis is the staff editorial cartoonist for the Buffalo News. His cartoons are internationally syndicated through Cagle Cartoons and have appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world, including The Week, Time, Newsweek, MAD, the Washington Post, USA Today, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. He has also done freelance work in book illustration and storyboarding. He won National Headliner Awards for his cartoons in 2006, 2011, and 2015; the National Press Foundation's Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award in 2013; and a Pulitzer Prize in 2015. (He was awarded the Pulitzer, his third National Headliner Award, and Hunter College's Grambs Aronson Award for Cartooning with a Conscience during a single week of April 2015.) Zyglis is the third editorial cartoonist for the Buffalo News to win journalism's top honor, following in the footsteps of Bruce Shanks (1958) and Tom Toles (1990).

Zyglis's family has been based in Western New York for three generations. He was born in Buffalo and grew up in Alden, N.Y. In 2004, he graduated from the Canisius College Honors program summa cum laude with a major in computer science, a minor in math, and a concentration in studio arts. His first cartooning job was for the Griffin, the weekly student newspaper at the college. His work at the newspaper in 2003 earned him three national collegiate cartooning awards, which led to freelance jobs with the Buffalo alternative weekly Artvoice. He accepted a full-time position at the Buffalo News in August 2004, at the end of a three-month illustration internship.

The Pulitzer committee commended Zyglis's ability to use "strong images to connect with readers while conveying layers of meaning in a few words." In his cover letter nominating Zyglis, News editor Mike Connelly wrote that the artist “leads his readers to a smile or a tear, sometimes confirming what they already thought, sometimes prodding them to reassess. His editorial cartoons take on Republicans and Democrats, John Boehner and Barack Obama. And with cartoons such as his take on … data mining and CNN, he doesn’t hesitate to go beyond politics. (Wolf Blitzer was a good sport about the April Madness cartoon; CNN asked for the original.)”

He is married to artist and writer Jessica Zyglis.

For more information on Adam Zyglis, visit his website at http://www.adamzyglis.com/index.htm. For an archive of his work for the Buffalo News, visit http://adamzyglis.buffalonews.com/.