Signe Wilkinson, Editorial Cartoonist

TEDx Talk Topic: Caricature Everything!

Award-winning editorial cartoonist and lecturer most known for her work at the Philadelphia Daily News, also the first female cartoonist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

Signe Wilkinson uses editorial cartoons to translate complex news stories into simple graphic drawings, and consequently provoke laughter, anger, and curiosity. She was once named “the Pennsylvania state vegetable substitute” by the former speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. She served as president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists from 1994-1995. In 2005, she published a collection of her work entitled One Nation, Under Surveillance and in 2007, Wilkinson began a syndicated daily comic strip, Family Tree. Wilkinson received a Visionary Woman Award from Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia in 2011.