Michael de Adder
| Michael de Adder | |
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| Born |
May 25, 1967 Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Occupation | Editorial cartoonist |
Michael de Adder (born May 25, 1967) is a Canadian editorial cartoonist who worked for the Halifax Daily News until it closed its doors in February 2008.
Early life and education
Born in Moncton, he attended Riverview High School.[1] He then graduated from Mount Allison University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1991. While at Mount Allison, he began drawing cartoons for the Argosy, the school's student newspaper.[2]
Career
He began his career working for The Coast, a Halifax-based alternative weekly, drawing a popular comic strip called "Walterworld" which lampooned the then-current mayor of Halifax, Walter Fitzgerald.[3]:xiii This led to freelance jobs at the Chronicle-Herald and The Hill Times in Ottawa.
In 2000, he landed a full-time job at the Halifax Daily News and has won numerous awards for editorial cartooning. He was nominated for a National Newspaper Award in 2002 and won the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists' Golden Spike Award in 2006 for the best cartoon killed by an editor.[3]:xvii
Today, his work also appears regularly in the National Post, Maclean's the The Chronicle Herald and the Moncton Times & Transcript. His work is syndicated in North America through Artizans.com. He continues to be a weekly contributor to the Hill Times as well as to Canadian Metro dailies.
He draws approximately 10 cartoons weekly and, at over a million readers per day, he is considered the most read cartoonist in Canada.[4]
He is a past president of The Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists and is on the board of the Cartoonists Rights Network.
Publications
- deBook, 2007
- You Might be from Nova Scotia If ..., 2013
- depictions, Nimbus, 2013
- Drawing Opinions: MacKinnon, DeAdder & More: Cartoons and the Stories that Inspire Them, Chronicle Herald, 2013
- You Might be from New Brunswick If ..., 2014
References
- ↑ Fredericton art gallery to display political cartoons by Michael de Adder Chronicle Herald
- ↑ For Michael de Adder, it’s all about making people laugh Chronicle Herald
- 1 2 Michael Deadder, Depictions, Nimbus, 2013
- ↑ Mount Allison University, Deadder Bio
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