Event
A CONVERSATION WITH DAILY NEWS CARTOONIST SIGNE WILKINSON
Co-sponsored by the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program and The Alice Paul Center and The Povich Journalism Fund
hosted by DICK POLMAN
listen: to an audio recording of this event
SIGNE WILKINSON is an editorial cartoonist best known for her work at the Philadelphia Daily News. Wilkinson is the first female cartoonist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1992) and 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. In 2007, Wilkinson began a syndicated daily comic strip, Family Tree, for United Media. She decided to end the strip in August 2011, with the last strip appearing on August 27. In 2011, Wilkinson received a Visionary Woman Award from Moore College of Art & Design.
Signe Wilkinson is the 2015 Judith Roth Berkowitz Lecturer in Women's Studies. She will speak on 'Redrawing Stereotypes: Cartooning in Our Charlie Hebdo World' at 5:00pm on Thursday, February 19 in Cafe 58, Irvine Auditorium. All are welcome. For more information see: this link Our website has the same blurb that you use in your announcement, but it also links to Signe's website (and also of course gets people on to our website :).