Steve Sack

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Steve Sack is a cartoonist who, along with Craig Macintosh, draws the cartoon activity panel Doodles. Sack is also an award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where he started in 1981. Both Doodles and Sack's editorial cartoons are distributed by Creators Syndicate.

Sack has been the editorial cartoonist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune since 1981.

A native of the Twin Cities, Sack was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1953. His newspaper career began while attending the University of Minnesota, where he illustrated features and drew editorial cartoons for the school paper, The Minnesota Daily. Two years later, he was hired as staff cartoonist for The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, Indiana

After three years, Sack returned to Minnesota to join the Star Tribune. He has won assorted awards and accolades for his editorial cartoons, most notably the 2006 Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award. Awarded annually by the National Press Foundation for the nation's best editorial cartoonist, the award was endowed in 1989 by Florence Berryman, former art critic of the Washington Star in memory of her late father and brother, both of whom were Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists.

In his free time, Sack enjoys oil painting. He lives in the Twin Cities with his wife, Beth.

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