Horsey was born in
Evansville, Indiana and moved to
Seattle, Washington at age 3. He began working as a cartoonist in the
Cascade, the school newspaper at
Ingraham High School. He was a French horn player in the
Seattle Youth Symphony. He attended the
University of Washington, where, as a
freshman, he became the editorial cartoonist of the student newspaper
The Daily. He went on to become the first editorial cartoonist to be chosen as editor-in-chief of
The Daily. He graduated in 1976 with a degree in
communication studies. Horsey's first job was as a
reporter for the
Bellevue Journal-American, but in 1979 he was hired to be the editorial cartoonist of the
Post-Intelligencer. In 1986, he earned a
master's degree in
international relations from the
University of Kent in
England. In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate degree from
Seattle University. At the end of 2011, he left the
Post-Intelligencer and went to work for the
Los Angeles Times, where he remained until January 2018. His work then appeared in the
Seattle Times until July 2018. He currently works for the Tribune Content Agency. Horsey has been recognized for his work with the
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, first in 1999, when many of his cartoons focused on the
Monica Lewinsky scandal, and in 2003, when he lampooned the
Bush administration. In 2014, he was again a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and also received the
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for his cartoons related to social justice issues. == Collections ==