Luckovich, Michael Edward b. 1960

Mike Luckovich original cartoon artwork.

Mike Luckovich has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1989. He began his career with The Greenville News in South Carolina in 1984, and moved to the New Orleans Times-Picayune later that year. In a September 2001 interview, Luckovich commented on his style of cartooning and how it changed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks: “Normally with my cartoons I try to use humour to get across my point. After September 11, you just couldn't use humour. The tragedy was so enormous, you couldn't be funny. It's almost like you have to come up with cartoons using a different part of your brain. I was just trying to come up with images that expressed the emotions that I was feeling and tried to focus in on different aspects of the tragedy that I thought were important.” In that same interview Luckovich cited Jeff MacNelly as his "biggest editorial cartoonist role model" and Mort Drucker as his "first hero."