{{Short description|American editorial cartoonist and journalist}} {{Infobox person | name = Pat Bagley | birth_name = Patrick Bagley | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1956}} | birth_place = [[Salt Lake City]], Utah, U.S. | notable_works = Editorial cartoons for ''[[The Salt Lake Tribune]]'' | awards = [[Herblock Prize]] (2009), Torch of Freedom Award (2007), Pulitzer Prize finalist (2014) }} '''Patrick "Pat" Bagley''' (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.
==Biography== Bagley was born in [[Salt Lake City]] and raised in [[Oceanside, California]], where his father was [[mayor]]<ref name=aclu/> and his mother was a school teacher.<ref name=eagle>{{cite news | title=Award-winning cartoonist keynotes 26th Women's Conference | date=March 3, 2005 | work=The Eagle Online | publisher=[[College of Eastern Utah]] | location=Price, Utah | url=http://eagle.ceu.edu/php-pages/article.php?article_id=455 | accessdate=2009-01-15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611163057/http://eagle.ceu.edu/php-pages/article.php?article_id=455 | archive-date=June 11, 2010 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref> Always interested in politics, Bagley participated in a [[PBS]] interview of [[Ronald Reagan]] when he was in high school.<ref name=aclu>{{cite web | title=Pat Bagley | work=Bill of Rights Celebration | publisher=[[ACLU]] of Utah | url=http://www.acluutah.org/bagley.htm | accessdate=2009-01-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516211844/http://www.acluutah.org/bagley.htm | archive-date=2007-05-16 | url-status=dead }}</ref> As a member of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church), he was a [[Missionary (LDS Church)|proselyting missionary]] in the [[Bolivia]] [[La Paz]] [[Mission (LDS Church)|Mission]] from 1975 to 1977.<ref name=Treasures>{{cite book | author=Bagley, Pat | title=Treasures of Half-Truth | at=Back cover | year=1986 | publisher=[[Signature Books]] | location=Salt Lake City, Utah}}</ref> In 1978, he received his degree in [[political science]] (with a [[history]] minor)<ref name=eagle/> from [[Brigham Young University]] (BYU) in [[Provo, Utah]].<ref name=uvu>{{cite web|title=Pat Bagley Bio |work=15th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration 2009 |publisher=[[Utah Valley University]] |url=https://www.uvu.edu/hass/mlk/pastcommemorations/Pat%20Bagley%20Bio |accessdate=2009-01-12 }}{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
Bagley has two sons, Miles and Alec. [[Will Bagley]], Pat's older brother, is an accomplished historian of the [[western United States]]<ref name=eagle/> and coauthored ''This is the Place!: A Crossroads of Utah's Past'' with Pat in 1996.
In October 2009, while reacting to recent statements by [[Dallin H. Oaks]], an [[Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church)|LDS Apostle]], about [[Protests against Proposition 8 supporters|gay marriage protesters and religious freedom]], Bagley commented that he was "retired" from the church, though not bitter or angry, and considers his LDS life a "good experience" and "in my blood."<ref>{{cite web | title=Cartoonist Pat Bagley Weighs in on Oaks Controversy | work=[[KUUB|KCPW-FM]] | date=October 20, 2009 | location=Salt Lake City, Utah | url=http://kcpw.org/blog/local-news/2009-10-20/cartoonist-pat-bagley-weighs-in-on-oaks-controversy/ | access-date=October 28, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127203520/http://kcpw.org/blog/local-news/2009-10-20/cartoonist-pat-bagley-weighs-in-on-oaks-controversy/ | archive-date=January 27, 2011 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref>
===Cartooning=== In 1977,<ref name=uvu/> 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.<ref name=chron>{{cite news | author=Rogers, Jay Logan | title=Cartoonist lampoons Bush, Utah culture | date=April 10, 2007 | work=[[The Daily Utah Chronicle]] | publisher=[[University of Utah]] | location=Salt Lake City, Utah | url=https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2007/04/11/cartoonist-lampoons-bush-utah-culture/ | accessdate=2025-02-19 }}</ref> Bagley submitted more cartoons to the ''Universe'' and targeted campus issues, such as the [[Brigham Young University Honor Code]]. Some believe the attention from his cartoons helped change the policy.<ref>{{cite news | author=Olsen, Abbey | title=Political cartoons create a din: The Benson-Bagley duo in the '70s | date=November 22, 2005 | work=BYU NewsNet | publisher=[[Brigham Young University]] | location=Provo, Utah | url=http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/57597 | accessdate=2009-01-15}}</ref>
After graduation, Bagley briefly worked as a caricaturist in the nearby Orem Mall,<ref name=eagle/> before being hired as the editorial cartoonist at ''The Salt Lake Tribune'',<ref name=Treasures/> where he still produces a daily cartoon.<ref name=uvu/> His cartoons have appeared in ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[The Guardian]]'', ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[Newsweek]]'' and the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''. Over the years, he has produced more than 6,000 cartoons for the ''Tribune''.<ref name=eagle/> He is [[print syndication|syndicated]] in over 450 [[United States|American]] newspapers by [[Cagle Cartoons]]. [[Daryl Cagle]] ranks Bagley as the second most popular political cartoonist on his index.<ref>{{cite web | author=Gardner, Alan | title=Cagle lists most popular cartoonists | date=November 13, 2007 | work=The Daily Cartoonist | url=https://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/11/13/cagle-lists-most-popular-cartoonists/ | accessdate=2009-01-15}}</ref>
Bagley is also an illustrator and author of independent political cartoons and children's 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!''.
Bagley describes himself as a former [[Factions in the Republican Party (United States)#Moderates|moderate Republican]] who became a liberal [[Independent (voter)|independent]] during the presidency of [[George W. Bush]]. Bagley often addresses the predominant Utah culture of conservative politics and the LDS Church.<ref name=chron/> Bagley's joking about [[Jell-O]] [[Mormon Corridor#Other names|consumption in Utah]] helped motivate the [[Utah State Senate]] to declare in an official 2001 [[Non-binding resolution|Legislative Resolution]] that Jell-O is "a favorite snack food of Utah."<ref>{{cite web | title=Utah Legislature SR0005 | publisher=[[Utah State Legislature]] | url=http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2001/bills/sbillint/SR0005.htm | accessdate=2009-01-15}}</ref>
In September 2020, Bagley drew a cartoon that showed a police officer looking at an [[X-ray]] for himself with a doctor. The doctor said "there’s your problem" while pointing to the X-ray which has the outline of a white hooded [[Ku Klux Klan]] figure.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Owusu |first1=Mercy |title=Group protests controversial Salt Lake Tribune cartoon |url=https://www.abc4.com/news/group-protest-controversial-salt-lake-tribune-cartoon/ |access-date=16 April 2021 |work=ABC4 Utah |date=4 September 2020}}</ref> The cartoon was condemned by law enforcement groups and led to a protest of ''The Salt Lake Tribune''. Bagley defended himself, saying that "I went to some pains to show that not all police are racist....white supremacists make a point of infiltrating law enforcement. That’s a fact. That’s a problem."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Spiewak |first1=Jim |title=Pro-law enforcement groups protest Tribune cartoon with KKK reference |url=https://kutv.com/news/local/pro-law-enforcement-group-protests-cartoon-with-kkk-reference |access-date=16 April 2021 |work=KUTV |date=3 September 2020}}</ref>
In April 2021, ''The Salt Lake Tribune'' published another Bagley cartoon that likened Utah congressman [[Burgess Owens]] (an [[African Americans|African American]]) to a Ku Klux Klan member. Owens, who grew up in the [[segregated South]], called the cartoon “pathetic.” Utah Senators [[Mike Lee]] and [[Mitt Romney]] and Representatives [[Chris Stewart (Utah politician)|Chris Stewart]], [[John Curtis]] and [[Blake Moore]] issued a joint statement calling the cartoon "repugnant" while enjoining the ''Tribune'' to retract it and issue an apology.<ref>{{cite news |last1=KUTV |first1=Alyssa Roberts |title=Tribune cartoon critical of Burgess Owens condemned by Utah congressional delegation |url=https://kutv.com/news/local/tribune-editorial-cartoon-condemned-by-utah-congressional-delegation |access-date=16 April 2021 |work=KUTV |date=15 April 2021}}</ref> Bagley responded by accusing Owens of promoting "dangerous conspiracy theories."<ref>{{cite news |title=Utah Delegation asks Salt Lake Tribune to apologize for 'Abhorrent' Cartoon of Congressman Owens |url=https://fox2now.com/news/national/utah-lawmakers-want-newspaper-to-apologize-for-horrific-cartoon-of-fellow-congressman/ |access-date=16 April 2021 |work=FOX 2 |date=16 April 2021}}</ref>
===Olympic pins=== For the [[2002 Winter Olympics|2002 Salt Lake Olympics]], Bagley designed many popular commemorative pins that poked fun at local themes, including a "Seven Brides for One Brother" pin and a "Crickets Make Me Barf" [[Miracle of the gulls|seagull]] pin.<ref name=eagle/> During the Olympics, Bagley sold out of his Utah-themed pins<ref>{{cite news | title=Pinning Their Hopes on the Winter Games | author=Thomson, Candus | date=February 10, 2002 | pages=D7 | work=[[Los Angeles Times]] | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-10-sp-bdolypin10-story.html | access-date=2009-01-15}}</ref> and many in high demand were sold at inflated prices. After the events had ended, Bagley continued to produce pins as the only recognized "pin artist" in the world.<ref>{{cite web | title=Pat Bagley Takes on Liberals | year=2006 | publisher=The King's English Bookshop | url=http://kingsenglish.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents&eventId=331514 | accessdate=2009-01-15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061113110807/http://kingsenglish.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents&eventId=331514 | archive-date=2006-11-13 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
=== Leaving the United States === On July 4, 2025, Bagley announced that he was moving to Portugal. "This has been years in the planning," he wrote. "I first considered leaving on election night 2016. When Jan 6 didn’t absolutely destroy the GOP and Trump brands, I knew it was prudent to make plans." He went on to draw parallels between current U.S. events and those of 1930s Europe, particularly the Spanish Civil War. "MAGA is full-on fascist," he wrote, "the real malignant deal in all its facets." Bagley wrote that he loved the US and hoped to return for visits, but acknowledged that his cartoons and editorials might mean it would be difficult for him to enter the country under the current Administration.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bagley |first=Pat |date=4 July 2025 |title=Pat Bagley - The Salt Lake Tribune |url=https://www.facebook.com/notrobertkirby/posts/pfbid0HaeHuePRM9SULAK92aWn3dBbyDzHSqwbVNHz6hsJabXBVUi4BUPrNjyWrZtrAD45l |website=Facebook}}</ref>
==Honors== *In 1992, Bagley received the Wilbur Award for Religious Communication from the [[Religious Public Relations Council]] for a cartoon in the April 23, 1991 ''Tribune''. He was the first cartoonist to receive the award, which is given for "outstanding communication of religious values in the news and entertainment media."<ref>{{cite journal | title=1992 Wilbur Award for Religious Communication | journal=[[Sunstone Magazine|Sunstone]] | date=September 1992 | pages=63 | volume=16 | issue=3 | publisher=Sunstone Education Foundation | location=Salt Lake City, Utah | url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/089-60-65.pdf | accessdate=2009-01-12}}</ref> *Bagley's 2002 book ''Dinosaurs of Utah and Dino Destinations'' was nominated for the Utah Children's Book of the Year. *In 2006, Bagley was honored by the Utah Headliners Chapter of the [[Society of Professional Journalists]] as the best editorial cartoonist in Utah. *Bagley was dubbed "Best Illustrator" by ''[[Salt Lake City Weekly]]'' in their 2007 Artys awards, which annually honor the best artistic talent in the city.<ref>{{cite news | title=Artys 2007: Readers' Choice | date=September 13, 2007 | work=[[Salt Lake City Weekly]] | location=Salt Lake City, Utah | url=http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=F5E7B9A9-0DE8-758E-0D734B9D746897FD | accessdate=2009-01-15}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> *Bagley was the recipient of the 2007 Torch of Freedom Award from the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] of Utah.<ref name=aclu/> *Bagley was awarded the 2009 [[Herblock Prize]] for editorial cartooning by a unanimous panel of judges, made up of [[Garry Trudeau]], [[Jules Feiffer]] and [[John Sherffius]], representing the Herb Block Foundation.<ref>{{cite web | title=2009 Herblock Prize Winner Announced | date=February 23, 2009 | work=[[Editor & Publisher]] | url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003943974 | accessdate=2009-03-03 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> *Bagley was a finalist for the 2014 [[Pulitzer Prize]] in Editorial Cartooning "for his adroit use of images and words that cut to the core of often emotional issues for his readership."<ref>{{cite web | title=2014 Pulitzer Prize Nominated Finalist | date=April 14, 2014 | work=[[The Pulitzer Prizes]] | url=http://www.pulitzer.org/2014_editorial_cartooning_finalist_2 | accessdate=2015-09-18}}</ref>
==Publications== * ''Mormons: History, Culture, Beliefs'': 2004, White Horse Books ({{ISBN|0974486035}})
===Children's books=== * ''If You Were a Girl in the Time of the Nephites'': 1989, [[Deseret Book]] ({{ISBN|0875792499}}) * ''If You Were a Boy in the Time of the Nephites'': 1989, [[Deseret Book]] ({{ISBN|0875792502}}) * ''I Spy a Nephite'': 1991, [[Deseret Book]] ({{ISBN|0875794157}}), reissued 2000, White Horse Books paperback ({{ISBN|1566845750}}) * ''A Nephite in the Works'': 1992, [[Deseret Book]] ({{ISBN|0875796303}}) * ''Hana, the No-Cow Wife'': 1993, [[Deseret Book]] ({{ISBN|0875797148}}) * ''Where Have All the Nephites Gone'': 1993, [[Deseret Book]] ({{ISBN|0875797571}}) * ''Peek-A-Boo Magic'': 1995, Buckaroo Books ({{ISBN|1885628005}}) * ''Norman the Nephite's & Larry the Lamanite's Book of Mormon Time Line'': 1995, [[Deseret Book]] ({{ISBN|087579906X}}) * ''Showdown at Slickrock'': 1995, Buckaroo Books ({{ISBN|1885628021}}) * ''Norman the Nephite and the A-maze-ing Conference Center'': 2000, White Horse Books ({{ISBN|1566845920}}) * ''Dinosaurs of Utah and Dino Destinations'': 2001, White Horse Books ({{ISBN|1566846013}})
===Political satire=== * ''101 Ways to Survive Four More Years of George W. Bush'': 2005, White Horse Books, ({{ISBN|0974486043}}) * ''Clueless George Goes To War!'': 2005, White Horse Books ({{ISBN|0974486051}}) * ''Clueless George Is Watching You!'': 2006, White Horse Books ({{ISBN|097448606X}}) * ''Clueless George Takes on Liberals!'': 2006, White Horse Books ({{ISBN|0974486078}}) * ''Fist Bump Heard 'Round the World: The 2008 Election in Cartoons'': 2008, White Horse Books ({{ISBN|0980140625}})
===Social and religious satire=== * ''I am Appalled...: A Collection of Daily Universe Cartoons'': 1979, BYU Chapter of the [[Society of Professional Journalists]] and [[Sigma Delta Chi]], with [[Steve Benson (cartoonist)|Steve Benson]] * ''We Survive World War Three and You Give Us Light Beer?: Life After Megadeath'': 1983, Gibbs Smith ({{ISBN|0879051418}}) * ''Treasures of Half-Truth'': 1986, [[Signature Books]] ({{ISBN|0-941214-47-8}}) * ''"Oh My Heck!": A Pretty, Great Cartoon Book'': 1988, [[Signature Books]] ({{ISBN|0941214680}}) * ''The Best of Bagley: 20 Years of Cartoons from The Salt Lake Tribune'': 1998, Slickrock Books ({{ISBN|1892936011}}) * ''Welcome to Utah'': 2001, White Horse Books ({{ISBN|1566846080}}) * ''Bagley's Utah Survival Guide'': 2008, White Horse Books ({{ISBN|0980140609}})
===Illustrator=== * ''Legalizing Adulthood in Utah'': 1991, Aspen West, by Tom Barberi * ''Sunday of the Living Dead'': 1995, Buckaroo Books, by [[Robert Kirby (humor columnist)|Robert Kirby]] ({{ISBN|978-1-885628-49-7}}) * ''Astro-Nuts!: Riddles About Astronauts and the Planets They Love'': 1995, Buckaroo Books, by Rick Walton ({{ISBN|1-885628-12-9}}) * ''Dino-Might: Pre-Hysterical Dinosaur Riddles'': 1995, Buckaroo Books, by Rick Walton ({{ISBN|1-885628-080}}) * ''The Ghost Is Clear!: Riddles about ghosts, vampires, witches, and other creatures'': 1995, Buckaroo Books, by Rick Walton ({{ISBN|1-885628-11-0}}) * ''Wholly Cowboy!: Cowboy, Cow, and Horse Riddles'': 1995, Buckaroo Books, by Rick Walton ({{ISBN|1-885628-07-2}}) * ''Wake Me for the Resurrection'': 1996, Buckaroo Books, by [[Robert Kirby (humor columnist)|Robert Kirby]] ({{ISBN|1885628471}}) * ''Norman the Nephite's Church History Time Line'': 1996, [[Deseret Book]], by William W. Slaughter ({{ISBN|1573451959}}) * ''This is the Place!: A Crossroads of Utah's Past'': 1996, Buckaroo Books, by [[Will Bagley]] ({{ISBN|1885628250}}) * ''Pat & Kirby Go To Hell'': 1997, Slickrock Books, by [[Robert Kirby (humor columnist)|Robert Kirby]] ({{ISBN|1885628463}}) * ''[[J. Golden Kimball]] Stories'': 1999, White Horse Books, by James N. Kimball ({{ISBN|1566845491}}) * ''Family Home Screaming'': 1999, Slickrock Books, by [[Robert Kirby (humor columnist)|Robert Kirby]] ({{ISBN|1892936089}}) * ''Kirby Soup for the Soul'': 2003, White Horse Books, by [[Robert Kirby (humor columnist)|Robert Kirby]] ({{ISBN|0974486027}}) * ''Fit Kids Cookbook'': 2004, White Horse Books, by Kate Duffy and Sarah McRedmond ({{ISBN|097093016X}})
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==External links== * [http://www.sltrib.com/Opinion#Bagley Bagley at Salt Lake Tribune] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100611163057/http://eagle.ceu.edu/php-pages/article.php?article_id=455 "Award-winning cartoonist keynotes 26th Women's Conference"], ''The CEU Eagle'' ([[College of Eastern Utah]] student newspaper), 3 March 2005
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