Education
Wuerker graduated from Lewis & Clark College with a Bachelor in 1979.
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Career
While at Lewis & Clark, he served as the chief editorial cartoonist for The Pioneer Log, the weekly student newspaper. He has published two collections of cartoons, Standing Tall in Deep Doo Doo, A Cartoon Chronicle of the Bush Quayle Years (Thunder"s Mouth Press, 1991) and Meanwhile in Other News. A Graphic Look at Politics in the Empire of Money, Sex and Scandal (Common Courage Press, 1998).
He illustrated the book The Madness of King George (Common Courage Press, 2003) by Michael K. Smith.
He has also been awarded the 2010 Herblock Prize (presented at the Library of Congress) and the 2010 Berryman Award by the National Press Foundation.
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Herblock Prize; Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartoon is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Journalism.The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartoon is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Journalism.