Background
Horsey was born in Evansville, Indiana and moved to Seattle, Washington at age 3.
Horsey was born in Evansville, Indiana and moved to Seattle, Washington at age 3.
He attended the University of Washington, where, as a freshman, he became the editorial cartoonist of the student newspaper The Daily.
His cartoons appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer until December 2011 and in the Los Angeles Times currently and are syndicated to newspapers nationwide. He began working as a cartoonist in the Cascade, the school newspaper at Ingraham High School. He was a French horn player in the Seattle Youth Symphony.
He went on to become the first editorial cartoonist to be chosen as editor-in-chief of The Daily.
He graduated in 1976 with a degree in communications. Horsey"s first job was as a reporter for the Bellevue Journal-American, but in 1979 he was hired to be the editorial cartoonist of the Post-Intelligencer.
In 1986, he earned a master"s degree in international relations from the University of Kent in England. In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate degree from Seattle University.
At the end of 2011, he left the Post-Intelligencer and went to work for the Los Angeles Times.