the hate wall, there was also a figure bowing before it wearing a kaffiyeh (though it is difficult to see). In July 2003, the Los Angeles Times published a Sunday editorial cartoon by Ramirez that depicted a man pointing a gun at President Bush's head; it was a takeoff on the 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Eddie Adams that showed Vietnamese general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner at point-blank range. The cartoon prompted a visit from the Secret Service, but no charges were filed. In September 2007, the Columbus Dispatch published a Ramirez cartoon depicting Iran as a sewer (labeled with the word "extremism"), with cockroaches spreading from it over Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries of the Middle East. Some commentators compared this with characterizations both of Jews in pre-Holocaust Germany and Rwandan Tutsis before the 1994 genocide. In July 2013, Investor's Business Daily published a Ramirez cartoon that depicted lynching in its criticism of Al Sharpton. In October 2013, Investor's Business Daily published a Ramirez cartoon that drew a parallel between the problems of the Affordable Care Act web site debut and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, to which many critics objected. Syndication Ramirez's cartoons were carried in the Los Angeles Times until the end of 2005. Investor's Business Daily carried his cartoons from 2006 until the end of its run as a daily newspaper in 2016. Awards 1994: Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning 1995: Sigma Delta Chi Award for Editorial Cartooning 1996: Mencken Award for Editorial Cartooning, presented by Free Press Association 1997: UCI Medal, University of California, Irvine 1997: Sigma Delta Chi Award for Editorial Cartooning 2004: Lincoln Fellow, Claremont Institute 2005: Scripps Howard Foundation, National Journalism Award for Editorial Cartooning 2006: National Cartoonist Society Division Award for Editorial Cartooning 2007: Sigma Delta Chi Award for Editorial Cartooning 2008: National Cartoonist Society Division Award for Editorial Cartooning 2008: Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning 2008: Fischetti Award for Editorial Cartooning 2011: National Cartoonist Society Division Award for Editorial Cartooning 2013: National Cartoonist Society Division Award for Editorial Cartooning 2014: National Cartoonist Society Division Award for Editorial Cartooning 2015: National Cartoonist Society The Reuben Award 2018: Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site Advancing American Democracy Award Honorary Member of Pi Sigma Alpha, National Political Honor Society References External links Michael P. Ramirez website 1961 births Living people American editorial cartoonists People from Tokyo Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning