Pulitzer Prize-winning Sun-Times cartoonist Jack Higgins knew the power of the pen had passed away.
In 1989 he won the Pulitzer for a collection of cartoons that included a drawing that pictured Vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle playing golf while Vietnamese children flee from a napalm attack, with Quayle asking the children, “Mind if I play through?”
Jack Higgins Cause of death
Jack Higgins died February 10, 2024, after a long illness at the age of 69.
Jack Higgins’s obituary information
Jack Higgins’s obituary is yet to be out.
However, Jack Higgins attended St. Ignatius College Prep and the College of the Holy Cross, where he majored in economics. He took drawing classes in college and met Boston Globe editorial cartoonist Paul Szep, who influenced his career choice, his sister said.
After college, he served for a year as a telephone hotline crisis counselor with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Washington, D.C.
In the late ’70s, he was an editorial cartoonist for Northwestern University’s student newspaper, the Daily Northwestern, though Mr. Higgins didn’t attend the university.
“My parents had these dreams of me becoming a businessman or a lawyer. I have six brothers and sisters. Two of them are scientists. A couple are lawyers. My brothers and sisters have degrees from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, the law school of the University of Virginia, the University of Chicago Business School, and Harvard! And here I come along with my crayons after college,” Mr. Higgins wrote about his beginnings in the Sun-Times.
“Political cartoons are meant to take the mighty and the pompous and cut them down to a more manageable size. Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” he once wrote about his job.
Jack Higgins is survived by his wife, Missy, and his children Tommy, Brigid, Rose, Jackie, and Brendan.
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