Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion: Investor's Business Daily Pulitzer Prize-Winning Editorial Cartoonist

Wiley Announces the First-Ever Collection of Editorial Cartoons
By 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner, Michael Ramirez

Provocative, hilarious, and insightful, EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO MY OPINION (Wiley; October 2008; $34.95; Hardcover) is the definitive collection of editorial cartoons by 1994 and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner, Michael Ramirez.  From Election 2008 and global warming to media bias and the war in Iraq, Ramirez pulls no punches with a unique combination of hard-hitting commentary, gut-busting humor and intricate artwork.

“No blowhard is safe…No sacred cow is immune.” – Michelle Malkin 

An equal opportunity offender, Ramirez hits every issue head on.   In EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO MY OPINION, you’ll find amusing and poignant jabs at the people and policies behind virtually every major issue over the last two decades.  With cartoons on everyone from Cheryl Crow and Elliott Spitzer to Barack Obama and John McCain, Ramirez’s work is a uniquely amusing, informative, and thought-provoking chronicle of our time.

But Seriously, Political Cartoons Are No Joke…

To be a serious cartoonist, you need to be a serious journalist.  Michael Ramirez is both, with a unique ability to deliver visual commentary that packs a punch—and a punch line.  It's the reason he's one of the most awarded editorial cartoonists of all time, winning two Pulitzer Prizes, three Sigma Delta Chi's, the National Journalism Award, and the 2008 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition, to name just a few.  He was named "Best Editorial Cartoonist 2006" by the National Cartoonist Society.  

Whether you’re liberal, conservative or somewhere in between, EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO MY OPINION will challenge you to consider alternative views.  As Ramirez says, “One good editorial cartoon can have a significant impact on the political dialogue of the day. If done well, it can influence those who govern to govern responsibly, and expose them when they do not.  Some of my cartoons may make you laugh. Some of my cartoons may you cringe, but all of them, I hope, will make you think.” 

In EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO MY OPINION, Michael Ramirez’s encyclopedic knowledge of the news and unmatched artistry make for a compelling romp through nearly 15 years of scandals and controversies, war and peace, illicit affairs, monetary policy, politicking, and international affairs – all beautifully rendered by Ramirez’s pointed pen.

For more information and to view selected works from EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO MY OPINION, visit www.IBDeditorials.com/ramirezbook.

About Michael Ramirez

Michael Ramirez is a senior editor and the editorial cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily.  He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1994 and again in 2008.  Ramirez is a Lincoln Fellow and has won almost every major journalism award throughout his career, including the Sigma Delta Chi Award in 1995, 1997, and 2007, and the National Journalism Award in 2006.  He has been the editorial cartoonist of the Los Angeles Times, the Commercial Appeal, and USA Today, and is nationally syndicated in over 450 newspapers around the world.

EVEYRONE HAS THE RIGHT TO MY OPINION

Wiley

Publication Date: October 2008

ISBN: 978-0470406779

Hardcover, 288 Pages

$34.95