Gary Varvel
Artist
Introduction
Gary Varvel is a national award-winning, internationally syndicated editorial cartoonist through Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. He currently writes the Varvel’s Views From The Right newsletter on Substack.
Varvel was born in Indianapolis in 1957, graduated from Danville High School in Danville, IN, studied at John Herron School of Art (IUPUI), worked for 40 years for Indianapolis Newspapers Inc where he was The Star’s editorial cartoonist for 24 years and was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 2015.
- Awards:
- 2018 Advancing American Democracy Award
- 2015 Inducted into Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame
- 2012 National Headliners Award for editorial cartooning,
- 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Cartooning
- 2010 National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for Best Editorial Cartoonist Division
- 2010 Grambs Aronson Award for Cartooning with a Conscience for his Path to Hope series on Child poverty.
- Fifteen-time first place winner of the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists’ Award for Best Editorial Cartoon
- Thirteen-time winner of the first place award for Best Editorial Cartoonist in the Hoosier State Press Association Contest
- 2006 H. Dean Evans Legacy Award for community service
His cartoons have appeared on Fox News and in Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Post, USA Today, Washington Times, National Review and Sports Illustrated.