McCutcheon, John T. (1870 – 1949)

John T. McCutcheon original cartoon artwork

McCutcheon became a cartoonist on the Chicago Morning News. His first political cartoons appeared during the 1896 presidential campaign but he preferred to concentrate on non-political subjects. At the end of his career he remarked that: "I always enjoyed drawing a type of cartoon which might be considered a sort of pictorial breakfast food. It had the cardinal asset of making the beginning of a day sunnier." McCutcheon moved to the Chicago Tribune in 1903 and remained with this newspaper for 43 years. During the First Wortld War, McCutcheon worked as a correspondent and combat artist, flying over battlefields in a bi-plane to research and then provide artwork about the war for publication. In 1932 McCutcheon won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the bank crisis.