1. Signe Wilkinson is the first female cartoonist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and was once named "the Pennsylvania state vegetable substitute" by the former speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
13 Facts About Signe Wilkinson
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Signe Wilkinson has won four Overseas Press Club Awards and two Robert F Kennedy Journalism Awards for Cartooning.
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In late 2020, Signe Wilkinson retired as the editorial cartoonist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News.
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Signe Wilkinson still publishes cartoons in Sunday editions of the Inquirer.
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Signe Wilkinson was born into a Quaker family in Wichita Falls, Texas on July 25,1950.
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Signe Wilkinson received a Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Denver.
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Signe Wilkinson then attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; to support herself, she worked with graphic design at the Academy of Natural Sciences, and various regional newspapers hired her as a stringer.
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Signe Wilkinson worked as a reporter, stringing for the Daily Post, the King of Prussia, and the West Chester Daily Local News.
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Signe Wilkinson worked for the Quakers and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University before working for a housing project in Cyprus.
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Once Signe Wilkinson returned to reporting, she would draw the people she reported on.
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Signe Wilkinson served as president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists from 1994 to 1995.
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On November 21,2007, Signe Wilkinson launched a syndicated daily comic strip with United Media entitled Family Tree.
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For Organic Gardening magazine, Signe Wilkinson created a comic strip entitled Shrubbery that centered on botanical and political topics.