Stuart Carlson grew up in West Bend, Wisconsin and began his journalism career as editor
and cartoonist for the West Allis Post/Star and as reporter
for the West Bend News. Carlson was the editorial cartoonist
of the Milwaukee Sentinel from 1983 to 1995 and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from 1995 to 2008.
Carlson's cartoons have been distributed nationwide by the Universal Press Syndicate. His
work has been printed in the New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and
Playboy Magazine. In 1991, the National Press Foundation
selected Carlson as the "nation's best cartoonist." In 1995, he was awarded the John
Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Award.
