Dana Summers
Dana Summers began cartooning for weeklies around his native Massachusetts in the early 1970s. He moved to North Carolina in 1978 as staff artist for The Fayetteville Times. In 1981, he became editorial cartoonist for the Dayton Journal Herald in Ohio. A year later, The Orlando Sentinel hired Summers as editorial cartoonist, where he has been for the last 18 years. In addition to drawing six editorial cartoons per week, he pens two comic strips for Tribune Media Services: The Middletons and Bound & Gagged. His syndicated cartoons appear in over 350 papers worldwide. Summers also draws the monthly Side Stitch cartoon panel, which appears in Runner's World. Summers has won the Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional Journalism Southeast award in 1983, 1989 and 1999. He also has won the Overseas Press Club's citation of excellence for cartoons on foreign affairs twice. Summers lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife and son Patrick. They have two grown daughters.