Lyle Lahey

Lyle Lahey is an American political cartoonist in Wisconsin and the author of the book "The Packer Chronicles" (News-Chronicle, 1997)

Lahey was born in 1931 in Abrams, Wisconsin. After a tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Korea, he completed a degree in journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also worked for the student newspaper "The Daily Cardinal". Lahey served 13 years as a promotion manager at WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Then in 1968, Lahey began contributing editorial cartoons to the "Brown County Chronicle," a weekly newspaper.

Lahey's editorial cartoons on local, regional and national politics, the Green Bay Packers , world events, and much more appeared in the "Brown County Chronicle" and after 1976, its daily successor, "The Green Bay News-Chronicle", from 1968 through 2005. He was also editor of "The News-Chronicle's" commentary pages until 1996.

A major topic of interest for him has always been environmental issues, for which he has won awards. Lahey is in many ways a Wisconsin version of Chicago's Mike Royko - an independent, often controversial (especially regarding church-state issues), usually cynical commentator on events and public people.

In 1997, "The News-Chronicle" published "The Packer Chronicles", a collection of Lahey's cartoons about Green Bay's hometown football team (the players, the coaches, and the fans).

In 2005, "The News-Chronicle" was closed by its new owner, Gannett, which bought the paper 11 months earlier.

In early 2006, Lahey started creating new political cartoons on his web site. He does three new cartoons a week.

External links

* [http://www.weimar.ws/lahey/index.html Official Website]