"Under the Weather"
Editorial cartoon
13'W x 9"H image size
Pen, brush and India ink
This piece was published in the January 20, 2007 edition of The Economist.

Kal Kallaugher Biography
Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) is the editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine of London.

Born March 23, 1955 in Norwalk, Connecticut,  Kevin graduated from Harvard College with honors in Visual and Environmental Studies in 1977. Kevin then embarked on a bicycle tour of the British Isles, where he joined the Brighton Basketball Club as a player and coach. After the club hit financial difficulties, Kevin drew caricatures of tourists in Trafalgar Square and on Brighton Pier. In March 1978, The Economist recruited him to become their first resident cartoonist in their 145 year history.

Kevin spent the next 10 years working in London as a cartoonist for such publications as The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, Today and The Mail on Sunday.

Kevin returned to the U.S. in 1988 to join The Baltimore Sun as its editorial cartoonist. Over the course of 17 years, he drew over 4000 for The Sun while continuing to draw two cartoons per week for The Economist.

KAL's work for The Sun and The Economist has appeared in more than 100 publications worldwide, including Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Pravda, Krokodil, Daily Yomiuri, The Australian, The International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, and The Washington Post. His cartoons are distributed worldwide by Cartoonarts International and the New York Times Syndicate.              

Kevin has won many awards for his work including the 2005 Nast Prize as presented by The town of Landau, Germany.  The 2004 "Gillray Goblet" for Cartoon of the Year as presented by the Political Cartoon Society of Great Britain.  The 1999, 2002 and 2005 Thomas Nast Award presented by the Overseas Press Club of America. The 2002 Berryman award presented by the National Press Foundation. The 1996 Grafica Internazionale Award at the International Festival of Satire in Pisa, Italy. The 1990 award for Best Editorial Cartoon at the Witty World International Cartoon Festival in Budapest, Hungary and the 1982 Feature Cartoonist of the Year Award as presented by the Cartoonist Club Of Great Britain.  

He published a collection of his Economist drawings entitled Drawn from The Economist  (1988) and four collections of his Baltimore Sun cartoons entitled KALtoons (1992), KAL Draws a Crowd (1996) and KAL Draws the Line (2000). A new collection  KAL Draws Criticism was published in June 2006.

In 2006, Kevin was named Artist-in-Residence at the Imaging Research Center at The University of Maryland Baltimore County. With the IRC, Kevin has pioneered the development of 3D digital caricatures that can be animated in Realtime.

In 1995, Kevin was invited by The Walter's Art Gallery to help curate the celebrated exhibit "Worth a Thousand Words: A Picture of Contemporary Political Satire". In 2006, The Walters mounted a major retrospective exhibition of Kevin's cartoons titled "Mightier than The Sword; The Satirical Pen of KAL". Kevin's work has also been exhibited at the Tate Gallery in London and the Library of Congress in Washington.  He has had one man exhibitions in London, New York, Washington, and Baltimore.

In 1999, The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons said of Kevin "Commanding a masterful style,  Kallaugher stands among the premier caricaturists of the (twentieth) century."

Kevin Kallaugher is a past President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and Cartoonists Rights Network.