A Dynamic Duo Nail The Dubster (Regularly)

In 2001, Ann Telnaes followed Signe Wilkinson (1992) as the second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Wilkinson, who savages The Dubster regularly, draws her 'toons for the Philadelphia Fishwrap; Ann Telnaes is not a newspaper staffer and joined Bill Mauldin as the only non-news-staff cartoonist winner of the Pulitzer Prize. If this is (fair & balanced) graphic ridicule, so be it.

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Copyright © 2008 Signe Wilkinson

[Signe Wilkinson was born in the depths of the baby boom and graduated from her suburban Philadelphia high school about the same year the SAT scores began their slide. After acquiring a BA in English from a western university of middling academic reputation, Wilkinson was unprepared for real work..., so she became a reporter, stringing for the West Chester (PA) Daily Local New. She also worked for the Quakers, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and with a housing project in Cyprus, a job that ended with a bang when a coup d'etat was followed by a military invasion from Turkey. Since then, Wilkinson has felt that a little multi-culturalism goes a long way.

Back in the newsroom, Wilkinson began drawing the people she was supposed to be reporting on. She realized cartooning combined her interests in art and politics without taxing her interest in spelling. After a year of remedial art school, including a stint at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, she began freelancing at several Philadelphia and New York publications, finally landing a full-time job at the San Jose Mercury News in 1982. After 3 1/2 years on a steep learning curve, Wilkinson repaid her long-suffering Mercury News editor by taking a job at the Philadelphia Daily News, where she has been drawing contentedly ever since. Wilkinson won the Pulitzer Prize for her editorial cartoons in 1992 and in 2007, Wilkinson received the Thomas Nast Prize for editorial cartooning.]

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Copyright © 2008 Ann Telnaes

[Ann Telnaes is a free-lance editorial cartoonist syndicated by Tribune Media Services and is the 2001 recepient of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. She is the first editorial cartoonist since Bill Mauldin in 1945 to win without being on a newspaper staff.

Her career path was a little different than most of her colleagues. Trained as an animator and designer, Telnaes worked in the commercial arts profession for years before being “inspired” by the Thomas-Hill hearings in 1991 to enter the editorial cartooning field. She became nationally syndicated in 1994.

Telnaes firmly believes that an editorial cartoon is visual commentary, not just a humorous drawing that illustrates the day’s news.

“If more editors looked at an editorial cartoonist as another columnist — one with a unique point of view who instead of using words uses images — the editorial pages would be much more dynamic and interesting to readers. While they might not read anything else on the editorial page, readers will always look, and react to, a good editorial cartoon,” Telnaes observes.

Telnaes’ work has appeared in many newspapers nationwide.

A collection of her original work was exhibited by the Library of Congress in 2003.]

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