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DDN’s cartoonist wins national awards

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By Dave Larsen, Staff Writer Updated 12:06 PM Tuesday, May 3, 2011

NEW YORK CITY — Dayton Daily News editorial cartoonist Mike Peters received a national honor Thursday night at the 72nd annual Overseas Press Club awards dinner honoring the finest international journalists in 2010. Peters received the Thomas Nast Award for best cartoons on international affairs.

The award was the second major honor this year for Peters, who joined the newspaper’s staff in 1969. He also won first place for editorial cartoons at the 2011 National Headliner Awards, presented by the Press Club of Atlantic City.

“I feel very honored getting those two awards this year” Peters said. “That’s gilding a lily in a way, because I love what I do.”

Peters’ editorial cartoons became syndicated in 1972 and now appear in more than 400 newspapers nationwide. His popular comic strip “Mother Goose and Grimm” was created in 1984 and is syndicated in more than 800 newspapers worldwide.

Peters said the honors were a surprise because he is semi-retired from editorial cartooning. “I’ve been doing five political cartoons and then seven comic strips a week for over 25 years,” he said.

He still does two political cartoons each week, plus his weekly “Open Mike” caption contest feature and seven daily comic strips.

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