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==Early life and education==
Jack Ohman was born on September 1, 1960, in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|Saint Paul]], [[Minnesota]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Jack Ohman (1960-)|url=https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/ohman-jack/|access-date=2022-02-09|website=Oregon Encyclopedia|publisher=Oregon Historical Society, Portland State University|language=en}}</ref> Ohman worked as a political aide for the [[Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party]] (DFL) during his high school years in Minnesota.<ref name=":0" /> At age 17, Ohman worked at the ''Minnesota Daily'', the student newspaper of the [[University of Minnesota]]. At age 19, Ohman was the youngest cartoonist ever to be nationally syndicated.<ref name=slate>{{cite journal |title = Editorial and Political Cartoons, Comic Strips: Featured Cartoon/Meet Jack Ohman |journal = [[Slate (magazine)|Slate Magazine]] |url = http://cartoonbox.slate.com/jackohman/ |access-date = November 8, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121106042436/http://cartoonbox.slate.com/jackohman/ |archive-date = November 6, 2012 |url-status = dead |df = mdy-all }}</ref> His first daily newspaper job was at ''[[The Columbus Dispatch]]'', where he was hired in 1981.
Ohman has a B.A. degree (1999) from [[Portland State University]].<ref name=":0" /> After graduation he worked as an adjunct associate professor of political science at the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University.<ref name=":0" />
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Ohman was a regular art contributor to [[ABC News]] ''[[Nightline]]'' television show from 1984 until 1986.<ref name="slate" /> He was a regular contributor to ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' and ''[[Money (magazine)|Money]]'' magazines.{{When|date=February 2022}} Ohman is also the creator of the syndicated [[comic strip]] ''[[Mixed Media (comic strip)|Mixed Media]]'', which he drew from 1994 to 1999<ref name="about" /> and which appeared in over 170 newspapers.
In 1986, through sales of copies of his cartoons about the space shuttle ''[[Space Shuttle Challenger|Challenger]]'' accident, Ohman raised over $30,000 for the families of the astronauts. It was the fifth
His work regularly appears in most major U.S. newspapers including ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', and ''[[The Seattle Times]]''. Ohman is also a noted [[fly fishing]] humorist, and has published four books on the subject, including the best-selling ''Fear of Fly Fishing'', ''Get The Net'', ''An Inconvenient Trout'', and ''Angler Management'', a book of essays. He has published 10 books overall.
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