Pulitzer-winning cartoonist to share perspectives on media bias, women
Signe Wilkinson, who in 1992 became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for cartooning, will speak at Baker Hall Tuesday at 7 p.m. The talk, hosted by the Baker Institute Student Forum, will focus on defining and investigating the field of political cartooning, as well as Wilkinson’s experience using satire to chronicle racial stereotypes and political bias.
Wilkinson contributes editorial cartoons regularly to the Philadelphia Daily News. Her cartoons are syndicated with the Washington Post Writers’ Group. She also publishes an occasional comic strip entitled “Shrubbery,” which comments on political landscapes using an extended gardening metaphor, and recently published One Nation, Under Surveillance, a book of editorial cartoons criticizing Americans’ lack of individual privacy.
Additionally, Wilkinson will speak on her career as a female cartoonist Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Humanities building, Room 117, as part of a lecture series hosted by the Women’s Resource Center.
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