Corky is the pen name of Philippine-born cartoonist Francisco FloresTrinidad, Jr.,the award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

Corky's two editorial cartoons a day appear in the front page and the editorial section of the Star-Bulletin in Hawaii and in scores of newspapers worldwide by syndication.

The first Asian editorial cartoonist to be syndicated in the U.S., his works have appeared in most major publications nationally, like the New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, USA Today, Time, Newsweek; as well as foreign periodicals like the Punch of London, Paris Herald Tribune, Politiken in Sweden, Buenos Aires Herald, Philippines Daily Journal and Manila Chronicle.

Corky also created "Nguyen Charlie", the daily cartoon on the Vietnam war for the Pacific Stars and Stripes during the war years; "Zeus!", the internationallysyndicated daily and Sunday comic strip distributed by Murdoch Features andthe Register-Tribune Syndicate; and "Aloha Eden", Hawaii's most popular comics strip.

Corky has a B.A ('60 ) degree in Journalism from the University of Ateneo de Manila in the Philippines.He started his career with the Philippines Herald in 1961as political cartoonist and columnist for the Herald and graphics director for the Herald publications. By 1965, his cartoons were among the most widely read in Asia, distributed in Europe and in the Chicago Sun-Times. This led to his syndication in 1965 by the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post Syndicate, the first ever for a non-American editorial cartoonist. He joined the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in 1969.Today, Corky is still the only Asian-American editorial cartoonist in a major U.S. metropolitan newspaper.

Corky was the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) awardee for journalism in 1965; a winner of the 1967 UCLA Foreign Journalism Awards; and twice an awardee for editorial cartooning in the Salon Des Humour competition in Montreal, Canada.

He was the 1982 awardee of the ACLU Allan Saunders Award a 1980 Freedom Foundation Thomas Jefferson medal and the 1998 recipient of
the Fletcher Knebel journalism prize by the Hawaii Media Council, only the fourth person to receive the award; and the 1998 editorial Cartoon prize of the PAI awards given by the Hawaii Publishers association.

He lives with his wife, Hana, an artist and dance director, in Honolulu. They have five children.


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