Kevin Kallaugher
Kevin Kallaugher (born March 23, 1955 in Norwalk, Connecticut) is a political cartoonist for The Economist and the Baltimore Sun. He cartoons using the pen name KAL. Editorial cartoon career
Kallaugher graduated from Harvard College with honors in visual and environmental studies in 1977. After that, he undertook a cycling tour of the British Isles, joining the Brighton Bears Basketball Club as a player and coach. When the club ran into financial trouble, Kallaugher began drawing caricatures of tourists on Brighton Pier and in Trafalgar Square. In 1978 Kallaugher became the first resident cartoonist in the then 135-year history of The Economist. He spent the following 10 years in London working for such publications as The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, Today and The Mail on Sunday. Kallaugher returned to the U.S. in 1988, becoming the editorial cartoonist for The Baltimore Sun. Over the course of his 17 years at the newspaper up to 2006, he drew more than 4000 cartoons for The Sun while also drawing two cartoons per week for The Economist. He left The Sun in 2006, but returned in 2012. References

External links

 Official website of Kevin Kallaugher
 Selection of animations by KAL
 The Economist KAL's gallery since 2006
 Best of KAL, The Economist, Apr 4th 2008
 Video: KAL discusses these drawings and his career at The Economist
 Interview of KAL by The Economist on YouTube 18 Feb 2022
 The Official Page of the iKal Book iPhone app
 
 

American editorial cartoonists
The Economist people
1955 births
Living people
Harvard College alumni
People from Norwalk, Connecticut
Artists from Connecticut
Fairfield College Preparatory School alumni