Jay Norwood Darling

Cartoonist, born in Norwood, Michigan, USA. As a staff cartoonist on the Des Moines Register (1906–49) and the New York Tribune (later Herald Tribune) (1917–49), he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 and 1943. An active wildlife conservationist, he was chief of the US Biological Survey (1934–5) and president of the National Wildlife Federation (1936).

Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling (October 21, 1876 - February 12, 1962) was an Pulitzer-Prize winning American cartoonist.

Darling was born in Norwood, Michigan, where his parents, Marcellus and Clara, had recently moved there so Marcellus could begin work as a minister. Darling began college at Yankton College in South Dakota in 1894, changing to Beloit College in Wisconsin the following year. In 1911 he moved to New York and worked with the New York Globe but returned to Des Moines in 1913. Three years later, in 1916, he returned to New York and accepted a position with the New York Herald Tribune. By 1919 Darling returned a final time to Des Moines where he continued his illustrious career as a cartoonist, twice receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. His cartoons were in from 1917-1949 by the New York Herald Tribune. Although Jay "Ding" Darling is mostly known for his political and conservation cartoons, he also drew the design for the first Federal Duck Stamp.