Rick McKee

The Augusta Chronicle | Editorial Cartoonist

  • Children: Jacob and Katie
  • Education: B.A. Graphic Design Samford University, Birmingham, Ala.

About Me

From doodling pictures of the principal in class to skewering the President in the newspaper pages of America, Rick McKee has been cartooning all his life in one form or another. McKee, a native of Tallahassee, Florida, has been editorial cartoonist for The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle since January, 1998 and his editorial cartoons are syndicated by King Features to over 400 newspapers across North America. In 2005, McKee won first place for editorial cartooning in the Georgia Press Association's better Newspaper contest. In 2004, he was named to Georgia Trend magazine's Who's Who in Georgia Media. In addition to newspapers, McKee's award-winning work has appeared in textbooks, newsletters and on web sites around the world. His work has been featured on CNN/Headline News, the Fox News Channel, Newsweek the Washington Post and USA Today. In 2006, McKee was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year. Along with everybody else.

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Latest Comments

3 days 12 hours ago

Thanks, y'all! Think there's any interest in a collection?

3 days 21 hours ago

As far as I know, I'm not going anywhere....

1 week 6 days ago

"It became a brawl when they had to fight for their lives and others jumped in." Apparently, you agree it was a brawl. I don't know how...

3 weeks 5 days ago

I set it digitally so it would be just like I wanted, then I traced over it by hand.

3 weeks 5 days ago

Absolutely! That's why we call it the Opinion page.

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The end of school in Columbia County had greater significance this year for five county schools, and it was the last day of Charles Nagle’s class visits as the boss.
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