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b. 1955 -

Kevin Kallaugher (born March 23, 1955 in Norwalk, Connecticut) is a political cartoonist for The Economist and the Baltimore Sun. He cartoons using the pen name, KAL.

Kallaugher attended Fairfield College Preparatory School and graduated in 1973. Kallaugher graduated from Harvard College with honors in Visual and Environmental Studies in 1977. He then embarked on a bicycle tour of the British Isles, where he joined the Brighton Bears Basketball Club as a player and coach. After the club hit financial difficulties, Kallaugher drew caricatures of tourists in Trafalgar Square and on Brighton Pier. In March 1978, The Economist recruited him to become their first resident cartoonist in their then 135-year history.

Kallaugher spent the next 10 years working in London as a cartoonist for such publications as The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, Today and The Mail on Sunday.

Kallaugher returned to the U.S. in 1988 to join The Baltimore Sun as its editorial cartoonist. Over the course of his 17 years at the newspaper, he drew over 4000 cartoons for The Sun while continuing to draw two cartoons per week for The Economist. Kallaugher's work for The Economist includes over 120 illustrated covers. On February 12, 2012, the Baltimore Sun announced that KAL was returning to the Sun.[1]

In 1995, Kallaugher was invited by the Walters Art Museum to help curate the celebrated exhibit "Worth a Thousand Words: A Picture of Contemporary Political Satire". In 2006, the Walters mounted a major retrospective exhibition of Kallaugher's cartoons titled "Mightier than The Sword; The Satirical Pen of KAL". Kallaugher's work has also been exhibited at the Tate Gallery in London and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He has had one-man exhibitions in London, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore.