Joel Pett’s cartoons have appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines nationwide, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe. He is a weekly contributor to USA Today, writes a regular feature on cartoons for the LA Times, and does a monthly cartoon for the educational journal Phi Delta Kappan.

Pett received the 1999 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for cartoons highlighting the plight of the disadvantaged, and the 1995 Global Media Award for cartoons on population issues.