Nate beeler biography
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I evolve. I elevate. I love a challenge.
After two decades as an award-winning, syndicated cartoonist and journalist, I now use my talents and insight to help companies tell their stories more effectively. Every chance to learn, collaborate, create, and help people makes my storytelling journey more gratifying.
Journalism and editorial cartooning were my proving ground, helping to sharpen my core creative, analytical, and writing skills. It started early: My first editorial cartoon was published when I was a sophomore in high school. Eventually, I became one of the top editorial cartoonists in the country. My award-winning editorial cartoons were distributed internationally to nearly a thousand publications by Cagle Cartoons and appeared in USA Today, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time, and U.S. News & World Report, among others. Along the way, I was featured on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, where viewers of “The O’Reilly Factor” officially voted me a “Pinhead.”
Newsrooms are fantastic factories of collaboration filled with smart, industrious people; the group effort was thrilling to be part of and always compelled me to elevate my own work. The daily news gave me a continuing education about the world and the way people think and act, and my passion
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Self-portrait cartoon by Nate Beeler
“There is something primal about a hand-drawn image that goes back to people painting on caves. We’ve always had cartoons, and editorial cartooning has a very rich history in the United States. It’s a powerful way to have a voice in the national conversation,” says Nate Beeler, SOC/BA ’02, an award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Columbus Dispatch.
By now, Beeler’s cartoons are certainly part of the national dialogue. His depiction of the Statue of Liberty and Lady Justice embracing following the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) won the 2014 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition.
When the news of DOMA broke, Nate says he struggled for inspiration at first, but once he knew what he wanted to portray: the joy of same-sex couples as well as the scope and historical significance of the ruling, he says, “It seemed a natural fit to put Lady Justice and Lady Liberty together because this decision affirmed freedom and also righted an injustice.”
Nate draws five editorial cartoons each week for the Columbus Dispatch and his cartoons are also syndicated internationally to more than 800 other publications. “When you’re an editorial cartoonist, your work is basically a visual colu
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