Dan Wasserman draws cartoons for the editorial page of The Boston Globe. He attended Swarthmore College, and because if offered no courses in either studio arts or applied irony, he majored in philosophy and minored in anti-war organizing. After graduating in 1971 Wasserman studied at The Arts Students League of New York.

Following stints as a commercial artist, community college teacher, corporate speechwriter, he broke into the cartoon business in Washington, DC during the 1980 Carter-Reagan campaign. He contributed to the oped pages of the Washington Star in its final years and then self-syndicated before joining the Globe in 1985.

In 1984, Wasserman was a finalist for the H.L. Mencken Human rights Award for cartooning. He was awarded he 1991 George Washington Medal of Honor for Public Communications by the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge and received the 1991 Standind O Award from the Massachusetts Human Services Coalition.

His work has been reprinted in Time, Newsweek, Business Week, the Economist and The Wall Street Journal and is syndicated to about 50 pages in the U.S. Late American and Europe by Tribune Media Services. His latest book, "Paper Cuts," was published in 195 by Ivan R. Dee.

Wasserman has observed a correlation between cartoonists’ age and their drawings. "You cartoonists are scruffy, unkempt and out to change the world, and they draw lots of cartoons about businessmen and corporate suits. Then they land a steady job, buy suits themselves and start drawing cartoons mocking kids who are scruffy, unkempt and out to change the world." He’s counting on his wife and two young kids to help him buck the demographic tide.