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{{short description|American cartoonist, born 1963}}
{{Infobox comics creator
| birth_name    = Frederick Theodore Rall III
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1963|08|26}}
| image         = Ted Rall.jpg
| imagesize     =
| caption       = Ted Rall at Stumptown Comics Festival 2007
| birth_place   = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date    =
| death_place   =
| nationality   = American
| area          = Artist, writer, editor
| notable works = ''Revenge of the Latchkey Kids'', ''To Afghanistan and Back'', ''Silk Road to Ruin'', ''The Anti-American Manifesto''
| major awards  = 1995 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, 1996 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
| website       = {{URL|http://rall.com}}
}}

'''Frederick Theodore Rall III''' (born August 26, 1963) is an American [[columnist]], syndicated [[editorial cartoonist]], and author. His [[political cartoon]]s often appear in a multi-panel [[comic strip|comic-strip]] format and frequently blend comic-strip and editorial-cartoon conventions. At their peak, Rall's cartoons appeared in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States. He was president of the [[Association of American Editorial Cartoonists]] from 2008 to 2009.

Rall draws three editorial cartoons a week for syndication, draws illustrations on a freelance basis, writes a weekly syndicated column, and edits the Attitude series of alternative cartooning anthologies and spin-off collections by up-and-coming cartoonists. He writes and draws cartoons for the tech and politics news site founded by journalist [[Gina Smith (author)|Gina Smith]], aNewDomain,<ref name="Ted Rall author page, aNewDomain">{{cite web|title=Ted Rall author page, aNewDomain.net|url=http://anewdomain.net/author/ted_rall/|website=aNewDomain|publisher=aNewDomain Media|access-date=4 July 2017}}</ref> and is the editor-in-chief of the satirical news website skewednews.net.

Rall also writes and draws cartoons for [[Sputnik (news agency)|Sputnik International]], a [[news website]] platform established by the [[Government of Russia|Russian government]]-owned news agency [[Rossiya Segodnya]] (Россия Сегодня—Russia Today).{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}

He is a graphic novelist and the author of non-fiction books about domestic and international current affairs. He also travels to and writes about Central Asia, a region he believes to be pivotal to U.S. foreign policy concerns. In November 2001 he went to Afghanistan as a war correspondent for ''[[The Village Voice]]'' and [[KFI]] Radio in Los Angeles. He returned to Afghanistan in August 2010, traveling independently and unembedded throughout the country, filing daily "cartoon blogs" by satellite.

==Early life and education==
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Frederick Theodore Rall III<ref name="cualumni">{{cite web | title=Frederick Rall, Universal Press Syndicate | publisher=Alumni Directory, Columbia Alumni Association }}</ref> was born in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], in 1963, and raised in [[Kettering, Ohio]], near [[Dayton]]. He graduated from [[Fairmont West High School]], in 1981. From 1981 to 1984, Rall attended [[Columbia University]]'s [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science|engineering school]], where he contributed cartoons to the campus newspapers, including the ''[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]'', ''Barnard Bulletin'', and the ''[[Jester of Columbia|Jester]]''. He failed to complete his studies in the engineering school, where he majored in applied physics and nuclear engineering, but returned to graduate several years later from Columbia's [[Columbia University School of General Studies|School of General Studies]] in 1991 with a bachelor of arts, with honors, in history.<ref>''[https://rall.com/faq/about] Ted Rall's Biography''</ref>

==Career==
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Rall says his drawing style was originally influenced by [[Mike Peters (cartoonist)|Mike Peters]], the editorial cartoonist at his hometown paper, the ''Dayton Daily News''. Later influences included [[Jules Feiffer]], [[Garry Trudeau]], [[Charles M. Schulz]], and Matt Groening.

Rall's 1990s work focused on the issues and concerns surrounding [[Twentysomething (term)|twentysomething]]s and [[Generation X]], terms coined in the late 1980s to describe people born from the early to mid 1960s to the mid 1980s. While living in San Francisco Rall met [[Dave Eggers]], who hired him as a contributing editor and writer for ''[[Might magazine]]'', a publication Eggers edited and co-founded. Among other essays, Rall authored two seminal essays for ''Might'', "Confessions of an Investment Banker" and "College is for Suckers." He wrote op-ed columns for ''[[The New York Times]]'', including "Why I Will Not Vote" (1994), which justified apathy among Generation Xers who saw neither Democrats nor Republicans responding to their concerns. In 1998 Rall published "Revenge of the Latchkey Kids", a compendium of essays and cartoons that criticized the Baby Boomer-dominated media for ignoring and ridiculing young adults and their achievements.

Rall's cartoons have been handled by San Francisco [[Chronicle Features]], no longer in business, and—since 1996—by [[Universal Press Syndicate]].<ref>[http://www.rall.com/rallblog/about Biography on the Ted Rail website]</ref>

Rall's cartoons have appeared regularly in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' and ''[[Men's Health (magazine)|Men's Health]]'' magazines, as well as ''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]]'' magazine (for which he also wrote) and were for several years the most reproduced cartoons in ''[[The New York Times]]''.{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole sentence|date=May 2016}}

Rall began frequent travels to Central Asia in 1997, when he attempted to drive the [[Silk Road]] from Beijing to Istanbul via China, [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Uzbekistan]], and [[Turkmenistan]] as a staff writer for ''P.O.V.'' magazine. ''P.O.V.'' published his adventures as ''Silk Road to Ruin'', a title he used for his 2006 collection of essays and cartoons about Central Asia. Rall returned to the region for POV in 1999 to travel the [[Karakoram Highway]] from Kashgar, in western China, to Islamabad. Subsequent trips included two trips in 2000, "Stan Trek 2000"—in which Rall brought along 23 listeners to his radio show for a bus journey from Turkmenistan to Kyrgyzstan via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan—and a U.S. State Department-sponsored visit to Turkmenistan, where he met with Turkmen college students and dissidents to explain the nature of free press in a democracy. A 2002 assignment for ''Gear'' magazine to cover the world championships of [[buzkashi]] in [[Tajikistan]] was not published due to the magazine's going out of business, but turned up in an edited form in ''Silk Road to Ruin.'' He returned to Tajikistan, [[Xinjiang]] Province in western China and Pakistan during the summer of 2007.

The ''[[Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists]]'' series of books is a series of [[anthologies]] of [[alternative comics]] edited by Rall. Frustrated that cartoons prevalent in alternative weekly newspapers were being ignored in favor of mainstream and art comics, Rall edited the first "Attitude" anthology, ''Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists'', in 2002, with its mission to bring together cartoonists who were "too alternative for the mainstream and too mainstream for the alternative." ''Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists'' followed in 2004, and in 2006 ''Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists'' appeared. Each volume contains interviews with, cartoons by and personal ephemera related to 21 different cartoon creators. The first and second volumes emphasized political and humor cartoons; the third volume exclusively features web cartoonists.

Rall also edited three cartoons collections by [[Andy Singer]], [[Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles|Neil Swaab]], and [[Stephanie McMillan]] under the name "Attitude Presents:".

From 2006 to 2009, Rall was editor of Acquisitions and Development at the comic strip syndicate [[United Media]]. While there, he helped bring to syndication [[Keith Knight (cartoonist)|Keith Knight]]'s ''[[The Knight Life]]'', [[Signe Wilkinson]]'s ''[[Family Tree (comic strip)|Family Tree]]'', [[Tak Toyoshima]]'s ''[[Secret Asian Man]]'', Dan Thompson's ''[[Rip Haywire]]'', and [[Richard Stevens (cartoonist)|Richard Stevens]]' ''[[Diesel Sweeties]]''.<ref name=Heidi>MacDonald, Heidi. [http://www.comicsbeat.com/universal-uclick-to-syndicate-uniteds-comic-strips/ "Universal Uclick to syndicate United's comic strips,"] ''The Beat'' (February 24, 2011).</ref>

Rall's work includes the book ''The Anti-American Manifesto'' ([[Seven Stories Press]]), published in September 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sevenstories.com/books/3566-the-anti-american-manifesto |title=The Anti-American Manifesto |publisher=Sevenstories.com |access-date=2012-06-28}}</ref> His book, ''The Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt'' (Seven Stories Press) was released in July 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sevenstories.com/books/3581-the-book-of-obama |title=The Book of Obama, From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt |publisher=Sevenstories.com |access-date=2012-06-28}}</ref>

===Other media===
Rall was a regular guest on ''[[Hannity & Colmes]]'', as well as NPR. He contributes a cartoon called "Left Coast" to the ''[[Pasadena Weekly]].'' In February 2005, BBC television broadcast a 30-minute profile of Rall as part of their series ''Cartoonists on the Front Line.''{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

Rall maintains a blog<ref name='rallblog'>[http://www.rall.com/rants.html Ted Rall Blog] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918052947/http://www.rall.com/rants.html |date=2008-09-18 }}, Rall.com</ref> at his website. Rall released a series of [[animated political cartoons]] on his website and on YouTube in collaboration with [[David Essman]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/user/tedralltoons tedralltoons] channel, [[YouTube]]</ref>

Rall had a Saturday and Sunday radio talk show on [[KFI]] radio in Los Angeles from August 1998 to August 2000. After [[9/11]], KFI brought him back to travel to [[Afghanistan]] and file live on-air reports from the battle of Kunduz and elsewhere in northern Afghanistan. Rall's show was also broadcast live from Havana as well as Pakistani-held [[Kashmir]]. In 2005 he had a weekend show on San Francisco's KIFR-FM. Rall has been a frequent guest on [[National Public Radio]], the [[BBC]] and Fox Radio.

==Politics==
[[File:Ted Rall Cartoon 2008.jpg|framed|A panel from a Ted Rall cartoon satirizing [[Antonin Scalia]]'s remark that he saw nothing wrong with "slapping" terrorism suspects.]]

In 2009 Rall called for [[Barack Obama]] to resign as President of the United States, because "the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama's inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes [[Bill Clinton]] look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through."<ref>[http://www.sj-r.com/opinions/x124603932/Ted-Rall-It-s-increasingly-evident-that-Obama-should-resign "Its increasing evident that Obama should resign"], ''The State Journal Record'', May 29, 2009</ref> He endorsed [[Jill Stein]] in the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 presidential election]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/jill-steins-ideology-says-one-thingher-investment-portfolio-says-another|title=Jill Stein's Ideology Says One Thing—Her Investment Portfolio Says Another|newspaper=The Daily Beast|date=26 October 2016|last1=Ali|first1=Yashar}}</ref>

In December 2016, Rall presented what he called a "manifesto" to "topple Trumpism."<ref>Rall, Ted (December 2015). [http://anewdomain.net/dont-fear-new-year-2017-how-leftists-will-help-libs-resist-trumpism-opinion/ Ted Rall Manifesto: Why Libs and Lefties Must Unite To Topple Trumpism]. A New Domain. Retrieved January 30, 2017.</ref> Less than a year and a half later, however, he predicted "that Mr. Trump would not only finish his term but win re-election, due to the divisions within the Democratic Party."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-left-waits-for-godoter-mueller-1527113165?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1|title=The Left Waits for Godot—Er, Mueller|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=23 May 2018|last1=Rall|first1=Ted}}</ref>

Rall is an [[atheist]] and writes some cartoons dealing with these views.<ref>[http://www.celebatheists.com/index.php?title=Ted_Rall Ted Rall] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527164508/http://www.celebatheists.com/index.php?title=Ted_Rall |date=2009-05-27 }}, Celebrity Atheist List</ref>

==Controversies==
In 1999, Rall wrote an article in ''[[The Village Voice]]''<ref>Rall, Ted. [https://web.archive.org/web/20061205030735/https://www.villagevoice.com/news/9930,rall,7298,1.html "The King of Comix: With Raw, a Pulitzer Prize For Maus, and a Strategic Job at The New Yorker, Art Spiegelman Has Become Lord of All New York Cartoonists. But His Power Is No Laughing Matter,"], ''[[The Village Voice]]'', July 27, 1999.</ref> accusing ''[[Maus]]'' creator [[Art Spiegelman]] of lacking talent and controlling who gets high-profile assignments from magazines such as ''[[The New Yorker]]'' through personal connections, including his wife, ''New Yorker'' art editor [[Françoise Mouly]]. In retaliation for Rall's piece, ''[[New York Press]]'' illustrator [[Danny Hellman]] sent two sets of [[e-mails]] under the name "Ted Rall's Balls" to at least 35 cartoonists and editors, including Rall's employers. After Rall tracked down Hellman's identity, Hellman ignored Rall's cease-and-desist letters. After several weeks, Rall filed a $1.5-million [[lawsuit]] for [[libel]] per se, libel per quod, injurious falsehood, violation of [[civil rights]], and [[intentional infliction of emotional distress]]. Rall's suit stated that Hellman was attempting to sabotage his career. Four of Rall's five claims were dismissed, leaving libel per se.<ref>Dean, Michael.  [http://www.tcj.com/236/n_danse.html Danse Macabre: Another Date for Ted Rall and Danny Hellman], ''[[The Comics Journal]]''.  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060505022554/http://www.tcj.com/236/n_danse.html |date=May 5, 2006 }}</ref> The lawsuit remains unresolved.

In a Rall cartoon from May 3, 2004,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/05/03/ |title=Ted Rall Editorial Cartoon, May 3, 2004 on GoComics.com |publisher=Ucomics.com |date=2004-05-03 |access-date=2012-06-28 |archive-date=2008-05-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517171210/http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/05/03/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Pat Tillman]] (a former [[Arizona Cardinals]] player who abandoned his NFL career to enlist in the [[United States Army Rangers]] and was killed in Afghanistan) is depicted asking an Army recruiter, "Never mind the fine print. Will I get to kill Arabs?" The narrator points out that he was killed and the reader is then given a choice: "idiot," "sap," or "hero." Later, after Tillman's anti–Iraq War sentiments and the [[friendly fire]] circumstances of his death became public, Rall wrote that he regretted making such sweeping assumptions about Tillman's motives, describing Tillman as "one hell of an interesting human being."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rall.com/2005/10/pat-tillman-redux-lot-of-people-have.html |title=Search and Destroy: Pat Tillman Redux |publisher=Rall.com |date=October 8, 2005 |access-date=2012-06-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718015531/http://www.rall.com/2005/10/pat-tillman-redux-lot-of-people-have.html |archive-date=July 18, 2012 }}</ref>

A November 8, 2004, cartoon<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/11/08/ |title=Ted Rall Editorial Cartoon, November 08, 2004 on GoComics.com |publisher=Ucomics.com |date=2004-11-08 |access-date=2012-06-28 |archive-date=2006-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060521223108/http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/11/08/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> depicted mentally disabled children as classroom teachers in an attempt to make an analogy to American voters who reelected President [[George W. Bush]], drawing complaints from advocates for the disabled and led to his cartoons being dropped from ''[[The Washington Post]]''{{'}}s website. Rall responded in his [[blog]] saying: "I regret hurting people who I have nothing against. I do want to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, and I think I failed in that with this cartoon. Not to mention that the cartoon failed—too many people got bogged down in the analogy and the main point got lost."

On October 22, 2007, Rall published a cartoon saying "Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared." That caused an uproar by military supporters both conservative and liberal alike.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=27683_Ted_Rall-_Only_Idiots_Die_in_Iraq_US_IQ_Soars&only |title=Ted Rall: Only Idiots Die in Iraq, US IQ Soars |publisher=Little Green Footballs |date=October 25, 2007 |access-date=2012-06-28}}</ref>

Rall is listed at #15 in Bernard Goldberg's book ''[[100 People Who Are Screwing Up America]]'' as a "vicious, conspiracy-minded, hate-filled jerk". Rall perceived the listing as an honor, replying, "Not only am I grouped with many people whom I admire for their achievements and patriotism, I'm being demonized by [[McCarthyism|McCarthyite]] thugs I despise."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/08/02/attacking_liberals_is_high_on_his_list?mode=PF |title=Attacking liberals is high on his list|author=Beam, Alex|date=August 2, 2005|newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523195212/http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/08/02/attacking_liberals_is_high_on_his_list?mode=PF |archive-date=May 23, 2006 }}</ref>

Rall solicited funds from readers and left-wing bloggers while considering whether to sue [[Ann Coulter]] for libel and slander for her (later self-described as "joking") statement that, "Iran is soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust. So far, only Ted Rall, Garry Trudeau, and ''The New York Times'' have made submissions." Coulter first made the remark at the 2006 [[Conservative Political Action Conference]] meeting in Washington, D.C., on February 10 and then printed it in her syndicated column the following week. By 18 days later, pledges totaled over $21,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tedrall.com/2006_02_01_archive.html#114117845575661874 |title=Search and Destroy: February 2006 |publisher=Tedrall.com |date=2006-02-16 |access-date=2012-06-28 |archive-date=2012-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120809113137/http://www.tedrall.com/2006_02_01_archive.html#114117845575661874 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Astor, Dave|date=February 13, 2006|newspaper=[[Editor & Publisher]]|title=Ted Rall Says He Might Sue Ann Coulter for Holocaust Cartoon Remark |url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001995932 |access-date=April 17, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060228002956/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001995932 |archive-date=February 28, 2006 }}</ref> However, pledges are no longer being solicited, and in a December 27, 2006 blog entry, Rall posted an email that was sent to pledged contributors to the lawsuit, stating that his attorneys had determined, "The road ahead is too uncertain to justify spending thousands of dollars of pledges, not to mention my own money".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tedrall.com/2006_12_01_archive.html#7111128767837612796 |title=Search and Destroy: Happy New Year, Ann Coulter |publisher=Tedrall.com |date=December 27, 2006 |access-date=2012-06-28 |archive-date=2011-12-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228195647/http://www.tedrall.com/2006_12_01_archive.html#7111128767837612796 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Dismissal from the ''Los Angeles Times''===
In July 2015, the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' released a "note to readers" stating that Rall had been dropped from the paper because of allegations that he had recently lied about a 2001 encounter with the police .<ref name="NotetoReaders">[https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-rall-20150728-story.html "Editor's Note: a note to readers"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', July 28, 2015.</ref> The [[Los Angeles Police Department]] (LAPD) claimed that Rall misrepresented the encounter in a May 2015 opinion blog post he wrote about enforcement of [[jaywalking]] laws in Los Angeles.<ref>Ted Rall, [https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-rall-lapd-crosswalk-tickets-20150511-story.html "LAPD's crosswalk crackdown: Don't police have something better to do?"]  ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', May 11, 2015.</ref>

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, whom Rall had repeatedly mocked in his cartoons for the ''LA Times'', provided a copy of an audio recording of the encounter (the location of the original microcassette, and whether it still exists, remains unknown) that the ''LA Times'' found to "raise serious questions about the accuracy of Rall's blog post".<ref name="NotetoReaders"/> Rall stood by his version of the incident.<ref>[http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/07/29/cartoonist-ousted-by-los-angeles-times-speaks-out/ "Cartoonist Ousted By Los Angeles Times Speaks Out"], [[KCBS-TV]], July 29, 2015.</ref> Another version of the recording, which Rall posted online after having it [[Audio restoration|restored]] by sound engineers, included sounds of bystanders talking. One person is heard saying "you need to take off the handcuffs."<ref>[http://observer.com/2015/08/former-la-times-cartoonist-mulls-lawsuit/ 'Cleaned-Up' Audiotape of Political Cartoonist's Clash With LAPD Bolsters His Story], ''[[The New York Observer]]'', August 4, 2015</ref><ref>Ted Rall, [http://anewdomain.net/2015/08/02/ted-rall-lapd-la-times-second-enhanced-tape-reveals-all/ "Ted Rall-LAPD-LATimes Battle: New Tape Proves Cops Lied "] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150805093311/http://anewdomain.net/2015/08/02/ted-rall-lapd-la-times-second-enhanced-tape-reveals-all/ |date=2015-08-05 }}, ''A New Domain'', July 31, 2015.</ref>

The [[Association of American Editorial Cartoonists]] issued a statement calling for an independent investigation of the tape.<ref>Sam Thielman, [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/15/ted-rall-los-angeles-times-lapd-police-cartoon "Fired Los Angeles Times cartoonist hits back at newspaper for siding with LAPD"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', August 15, 2015.</ref><ref>Benjamin Mullin, [http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/365957/cartoonists-call-for-review-of-tape-used-as-evidence-to-cut-ties-with-cartoonist/ "Cartoonists call for review of tape used as evidence to cut ties with Ted Rall"], [[Poynter.org]], August 14, 2015.</ref> On August 19, the ''LA Times'' issued a lengthy statement reaffirming its claim that Rall's original blog post "did not meet its standards". In it, they reported they had the audio recording investigated by two audio and video forensics experts and it still did not support Rall's version of the event.<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/local/readers-rep/la-ed-ted-rall-documents-recordings-20150814-htmlstory.html "Times reaffirms decision that Ted Rall's blog post did not meet its standards"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', August 19, 2015.</ref>

====Lawsuit against the ''Los Angeles Times''====

In March 2016, Rall filed suit against the ''Los Angeles Times'' for [[defamation of character]] and [[wrongful dismissal|wrongful termination]];<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0316-rall-lawsuit-20160316-story.html "L.A. Times is sued by cartoonist over questioning of his blog post's accuracy"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', March 17, 2016.</ref> in June 2017, the judge in the case dismissed claims against four individuals for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress; claims against the former and current ''LA Times'' corporate ownership remain.<ref name=Dismiss>[https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ted-rall-20170621-story.html Judge tosses cartoonist's claims he was defamed by L.A. Times journalists and former publisher], by Marisa Gerber, at the [[Los Angeles Times]]; published June 21, 2017; retrieved June 22, 2017</ref> Rall appealed the lower-court dismissal to the California Court of Appeals. On January 17, 2019, the Court of Appeals published an opinion affirming the dismissal.<ref>https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5688726/Appeals-court-affirms-trial-judge-s-decision-in.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> However, in April 2019 the [[California Supreme Court]] accepted Rall's [[Petition for review]], which continues the case's appeal process.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/2019/04/18/state-supreme-court-takes-up-former-pw-cartoonists-suit-against-la-times/ |title=State Supreme Court takes up former PW cartoonist's suit against LA Times - Pasadena Weekly |access-date=2019-06-02 |archive-date=2019-06-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602231511/https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/2019/04/18/state-supreme-court-takes-up-former-pw-cartoonists-suit-against-la-times/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In September 2019, the California Supreme Court returned the case to the California Court of Appeals for review in light of its decision in ''Wilson v. Cable News Network, Inc''. (2019) 7 Cal. 5th 871 (''Wilson)''. On December 18, 2019, the California Court of Appeals again affirmed the trial court's orders dismissing Rall's claims.<ref>{{Citation|title=Rall v. Tribune 365, Llc|date=December 18, 2019|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15020321467593423511&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr|issue=B284566|access-date=2020-01-18}}</ref>

==Awards==
* 1995: [[Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award]]
* 1996: Finalist, Pulitzer Prize
* 1997: [[Firecracker Alternative Book Award]] (Graphic Novel), for ''Real Americans Admit: The Worst Thing I've Ever Done!''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.readersread.com/awards/firecracker.htm|title=Firecracker Alternative Book Awards|work=ReadersRead.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304133738/http://www.readersread.com/awards/firecracker.htm|archive-date=Mar 4, 2009}}</ref>
* 1997: First Prize, Deadline Club Award, Society of Professional Journalists
* 2000: Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
* 2001: [[Amazon's Best Books of the Year]], for ''2024: A Graphic Novel''
* 2002: Best Book of the Year, [[American Library Association]], for ''To Afghanistan and Bac''
* 2002: James Aronson Award for Social Justice Graphics
* 2007: Second Prize, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Awards<ref>{{cite web |last=Kuldell |first=Heather |url=http://aan.org/alternative/Aan/ViewArticle?oid=oid%3A184044 |title=2007 AltWeekly Awards Finalists Announced |publisher=Association of Alternative Newsmedia |date=May 3, 2007 |access-date=2012-06-28 |archive-date=2010-04-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100428152514/http://www.aan.org/alternative/Aan/ViewArticle?oid=oid%3A184044 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2007: Second Prize, Lambda Legal's "Life Without Fair Courts" cartoon contest<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lambdalegal.org/take-action/campaigns/life-without-fair-courts/ |title=Fair Courts Project |publisher=Lambda Legal |access-date=2012-06-28}}</ref>
* 2008: Ohioana Citation for Art and Journalism
* 2010: Scripps Howard National Journalism Award, Finalist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/readers/2011/03/grading-the-teachers-wins-scripps-howard-public-service-award.html |title='Grading the Teachers' wins Scripps Howard public service award |department=Readers' Representative Journal (blog) |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=March 18, 2011 |access-date=2012-06-28}}</ref>
* 2011: First Prize, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Awards<ref>{{cite web|last=Zaragoza|first=Jason |url=http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/2011-altweekly-awards-winners-announced/Article?oid=4549589 |title=2011 AltWeekly Awards Winners Announced |publisher=Association of Alternative Newsmedia |date=July 22, 2011 |access-date=2012-06-28}}</ref>

==Publications==

===Cartoon collections===
*''Waking Up In America'' (St. Martin's Press, 1992), {{ISBN|0-312-08518-4}}
*''All The Rules Have Changed'' (Rip Off Press, 1995), {{ISBN|0-89620-119-8}}
*''Search and Destroy'' (Andrews McMeel 2001), {{ISBN|0-7407-1396-5}}
*''America Gone Wild'' (Andrews McMeel, 2006), {{ISBN|0-7407-6045-9}}

===Graphic novels===
*''Real Americans Admit: The Worst Thing I've Ever Done!'' (NBM Publishing, 1996), {{ISBN|1-56163-157-4}}
*''My War With Brian'' (NBM, 1998), {{ISBN|1-56163-215-5}}
*''2024: A Graphic Novel'' (NBM, 2001), {{ISBN|1-56163-290-2}}
*''The Year of Loving Dangerously'' (NBM, 2009), artwork by Pablo G. Callejo, {{ISBN|1-56163-565-0}}
*''After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests'' (Hill and Wang, 2014) {{ISBN|0-8090-2340-7}}
*''The Stringer'' (NBM, 2021) {{ISBN|978-1-6811-2272-4}}

===Non-fiction===
*''Revenge of the Latchkey Kids: An Illustrated Guide to Surviving the '90s and Beyond'' (Workman, 1998), essays and cartoons, {{ISBN|0-7611-0745-2}}
*''Gas War: The Truth Behind the American Occupation of Afghanistan'' (NBM, 2002), prose non-fiction, {{ISBN|0-7407-1396-5}}
*''To Afghanistan and Back'' (NBM, 2002), graphic travelogue, {{ISBN|1-56163-325-9}}
*''Wake Up, You're Liberal!: How We Can Take America Back from the Right'' (Soft Skull Press, 2004), prose non-fiction, {{ISBN|1-932360-22-0}}
*''Generalissimo El Busho: Essays and Cartoons on the Bush Years'' (NBM, 2004), essays and cartoons, {{ISBN|1-56163-384-4}}
*''Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?'' (NBM, 2006), graphic novellas and essays, {{ISBN|1-56163-454-9}}
*''The Anti-American Manifesto'' (Seven Stories Press, 2010), political polemic, {{ISBN|1-58322-933-7}}
*''The Book of Obama: How We Went From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt'' (Seven Stories Press, 2012), essays and cartoons, {{ISBN|978-1-60980-450-3}}
*''Snowden'' (Seven Stories Press, 2015), prose non-fiction, {{ISBN|1-60980-635-2}}
*''Bernie'' (Seven Stories Press, 2016), prose non-fiction, {{ISBN|1-60980-698-0}}
*''Trump: A Graphic Biography'' (Seven Stories Press, 2016), prose non-fiction, {{ISBN|1-60980-758-8}}
*''Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America'' (39 West Press, 2017), essays and cartoons, with Harmon Leon, {{ISBN|978-1-946358-09-7}}
*''Francis, the People's Pope'' (Seven Stories Press, 2018), prose non-fiction, {{ISBN|9781609807603}}
*''Bernie: Updated 2020 Edition'' (Seven Stories Press, 2020), prose non-fiction, {{ISBN|9781644210321}}
*''Political Suicide: The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party'' (Seven Stories Press, 2020), prose non-fiction, {{ISBN|9781609809942}}

===''Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists'' anthologies===
*''[[Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists]]'' (NBM, 2002), {{ISBN|1-56163-317-8}}
*''Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists'' (NBM, 2004), {{ISBN|1-56163-381-X}}
*''Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists'' (NBM, 2006), {{ISBN|1-56163-465-4}}

===Other===
*''Shiny Adidas Track Suits and the Death of Camp'' (1998), contains essays from [[Might Magazine]], {{ISBN|0-425-16477-2}}
*''9-11: Emergency Relief'' (2001) [[9/11]] benefit anthology; contributor, {{ISBN|1-891867-12-1}}
*''Working For the Man'' (2003) [[William Messner-Loebs]] benefit anthology; contributor
*''Masters of War: Militarism and Blowback in the Era of American Empire'' (2003), cartoon foreword, {{ISBN|0-415-94499-6}}
*''Talk to Her: Interviews with Kristine McKenna'' (2004), illustration of Joe Stummer, {{ISBN|1-56097-570-9}}
*''Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print'' (2004), edited by David Wallis, contains "Money Changes Everything" essay, {{ISBN|1-56025-581-1}}
*''The Disposable Male: Sex, Love, and Money'' (2006), by Michael Gilbert, includes cartoon, {{ISBN|0-9776552-3-7}}
*''Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression'' (2007), edited by David Wallis, contains "Ronald Reagan airport" and "Gulf War Beach" cartoons, {{ISBN|0-393-32924-0}}
*''Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps'' (2012), by [[Greg Palast]], contains 48-page comic insert "Tales From The Crypt of Democracy", {{ISBN|1-609-80478-3}}

==See also==
* [[Matt Bors]] - another cartoonist who has collaborated with Rall
* [[List of newspaper columnists]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
{{Wikiquote|Ted Rall}}
*{{Official website|http://www.rall.com}}
*[http://www.satyamag.com/may03/rall.html Interview with Rall in ''Satya'' magazine from 2003]
*[https://www.bdtheque.com/interviews/79/ted-rall-vo Interview with Rall on bdtheque.com - 2008]
{{Universal Press columns}}

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