| Henry
Payne is the editorial cartoonist for The
Detroit News.
Working out of the paper's
main offices in downtown Detroit, Michigan, Payne produces
five cartoons a week for the 220,000-circulation daily.
He also writes and draws
a column, Payne & Ink,
which appears on the paper's Monday Op-Ed page. His
weekly CAR-toon - a humorous
look at America's car-crazy culture - runs Tuesdays
on The News' web site, detnews.com.
Payne is represented by
United Feature Syndicate
in New York which distributes his cartoons to an additional
60 newspaper clients worldwide. His work has been reprinted
in The New York Times,
USA Today, and the National
Review.
He has been a runner-up
for both the Pulitzer and Mencken awards. "Payne's
Sketchbook," a daily cartoon blog in which he discusses
how he creates his cartoons, can be found at detnews.com.
A writer as well as an
artist, Payne reports regularly on economic, consumer
and environmental issues. His articles have appeared
in the Wall Street Journal,
the Weekly Standard magazine,
National Review, Reason,
Scripps Howard News Service
and numerous newspapers around the country, including
the Rocky Mountain News,
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
and The Detroit News.
He also contributes daily to the National Review's
popular "Planet Gore" blog and The Detroit
News "Politics Blog."
Payne came to The Detroit
News in 1999 after 13 years as editorial cartoonist
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for ScrippsHoward
News Service in Washington, DC where he was also
editor of the SHNS cartoon wire, a service offeringthe
work of nine contributing editorial cartoonists.
In 1998, Payne created Hub
& Axel, a comic panel distributed by the Tribune
Company Syndicate about an American family and
its very American passion for the automobile.
Payne published his first
book, Payne & Ink: The Cartoons
and Commentary of Henry Payne, 2000-2001, in 2002.
He has also illustrated
two children's books for Random House: "Where
did Daddy's Hair Go?" (by Joe O'Connor) in 2006,
and Dr. Seuss' "The Ear Book" due in
June of 2007.
Born in 1962 in Charleston,
West Virginia, Payne received a degree in history from
Princeton University in 1984. As editorial cartoonist
for two student newspapers, The
Daily Princetonian and the Nassau
Weekly, Payne won the College Media Advisers Cartoon
Contest and the Tribune Company Syndicate's National College
Cartoonist's Contest.
Upon
graduation from Princeton, Payne began his newspaper career
as staff artist and editorial cartoonist with the Charleston
(WV) Daily Mail. In 1986 he joined Scripps
Howard News Service and began syndication with
United Feature in 1987.
Payne is an active race
car driver, tennis and squash player, and lives with wife,
Talbot, and two children in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. |
