Background
Pett was born in Bloomington, Indiana.
Pett was born in Bloomington, Indiana.
He moved to Ibadan, Nigeria with his family in 1959 before returning to America in 1964. After college at Indiana University, he began doing freelance cartooning jobs for over nine years. In April 1984, he joined the Lexington Herald-Leader as their staff cartoonist.
Pett"s cartoons have appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines nationwide, including the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe.
He is a weekly contributor to United States of America Today, writes a regular feature on cartoons for the Los Angeles Times, and does a monthly cartoon for the educational journal Phi Delta Kappan. He is a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, and a past Pulitzer juror.
He has conducted three overseas seminars on editorial cartooning as a guest speaker of the United States. State Department.