AAEC - Cartoonist Profile

Rex Babin

Rex Babin has been the political cartoonist for The Sacramento Bee since 1999. A native of Walnut Creek, California, Babin previously worked at the Albany, NY Times Union for 10 years. He also worked at the Orange Coast Daily Pilot and the Denver Post. His cartoons are distributed nationally by King Features Syndicate. Rex was the winner of the National Press Foundation's 2001 Berryman Award and was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize.