David M. Hitch
About
An award-winning cartoonist, David M. Hitch has been a conservative voice for newspapers for over 30 years.
The National Newspaper Association presented him with its Best Original Cartoon Award in 1987, and in 1989, he won an award for illustration in the New England Associated Press News Executives Association Page Presentation Contest.
He also founded a commercial art studio in 1986 and self-syndicated a weekly editorial cartoon feature, Stating Opinions, to a dozen Nebraska newspapers in 1988.
A native of Omaha, Neb., Hitch won numerous regional and national awards for art, writing, and architectural design while still in high school. He produced cartoons for TheGateway, the school newspaper for the University of Nebraska, where he was an art major. He twice won national honors for collegiate cartooning and a local Sigma Delta Chi Award in 1982.