CINCINNATI -- Paul Kolsti of the Dallas Morning News won the second Charles M. Schulz Award, established in 1980 to help advance the careers of promising cartoonists, it was announced Sunday.
Jacques A. Caldwell, president of the Scripps-Howard Foundation, announced the winner of the award that is sponsored by the foundation and funded by United Features Syndicate.
The award was established to honor Charles M. Schulz on the 30th anniversary of his comic strip, 'Peanuts.'
Kolsti will receive $2,000 and a plaque while joining other winners of Scripps-Howard competitions at an awards luncheon in Cincinnati on April 7.
Kolsti, 28, was graduated in 1976 from Kansas State University. He worked as a part-time paste-up artist with the Sun Publications in Overland Park, Kan., then joined the Dallas Morning News in 1977 as a photo retouch artist.
Last year, Kolsti became a full-fledged cartoonist and currently averages four political illustrations-cartoons per week.
Richard Codor, a free-lance artist from New York, won the first Schulz Award.
Judges for this year's award were Schulz; Roy Paul Nelson, professor of journalism at the University of Oregon; and Phyllis Singer, assistant managing editor-features, Newsday.
