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\"BagleyPat\"<\/a>Patrick \u201cPat\u201d Bagley<\/strong> (born 1956) is an American editorial cartoonist and journalist for The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah, and an author and illustrator of several books.
\nBagley was born in Salt Lake City and raised in Oceanside, California, where his father was mayor and his mother was a school teacher. Always interested in politics, during high school Bagley participated in a PBS interview of Ronald Reagan. As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), he was a proselyting missionary in the Bolivia La Paz Mission from 1975\u201377 In 1978 he received his degree in political science, with a history minor, from Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah.
\nBagley has two sons, Miles and Alec. Will Bagley, Pat\u2019s older brother, is an accomplished historian of the western United States and coauthored This is the Place!: A Crossroads of Utah\u2019s Past with Pat in 1996.
\nCartooning
\nIn 1977, during a finance class at BYU, Bagley doodled a political cartoon, which he submitted to the student newspaper, The Daily Universe. This became his first published cartoon, which was reprinted in Time Magazine just weeks later. Bagley submitted more cartoons to the Universe and targeted campus issues, such as BYU\u2019s requirement for female students to wear dresses. Some believe the attention from his cartoons helped change the policy.
\nAfter graduation, Bagley briefly worked as a caricaturist in the nearby Orem Mall, before being hired as the editorial cartoonist at The Salt Lake Tribune,[3] where he still produces a daily cartoon.His cartoons have appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian of London, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and The Los Angeles Times. Over the years, he has produced more than 6,000 cartoons for the Tribune. He is syndicated in over 450 American newspapers and his work is regularly featured at Daryl Cagle\u2019s Political Cartoonists Index (Cagle.com) and in The Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year. Cagle ranks Bagley as the second most popular political cartoonist on his index.
\nBagley is also an illustrator and author of independent political cartoons and children\u2019s books. His liberal political stance contrasts with the conservative state of Utah, and has influenced several books of political cartoons and humor, including 101 Ways to Survive Four More Years of George W. Bush, Clueless George Goes To War!, Clueless George Is Watching You!, and Clueless George Takes on Liberals!.
\nBagley describes himself as a moderate-Republican who became a liberal independent during the presidency of George W. Bush. Bagley often addresses the predominant Utah culture of conservative politics and the LDS Church.[6] Bagley\u2019s joking about Jell-O consumption in Utah helped motivate the Utah State Senate to declare in an official 2001 Legislative Resolution that Jell-O is \u201ca favorite snack food of Utah.\u201d
\nOlympic pins
\nFor the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, Bagley designed many popular commemorative pins that poked fun at local themes, including a \u201cSeven Brides for One Brother\u201d pin and a \u201cCrickets Make Me Barf\u201d seagull pin. During the Olympics, Bagley sold out of his Utah-themed pins[10] and many in high demand were sold at inflated prices. After the events had ended, Bagley continued to produce pins as the only recognized \u201cpin artist\u201d in the world.<\/p>\n

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