Gene Weingarten

Writer Gene Weingarten dropped out of college and worked construction sites, hardware stores, and car dealerships before becoming a cartoonist and humor columnist for the Washington Post. Now back in college studying information technology, he is also the author of four books and the winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Weingarten's collaborator, cartoonist, David Clark, is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and has worked as a freelance illustrator for various newspapers and magazines for more than 20 years. In 1996, Clark received the National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Illustration Award.