
05/10/2022
My free speech cartoons with Jonathan Zimmerman’s “bracing” text won the gold Benjamin Franklin Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA). Great graduation present, friends!
Pulitzer Prize winning Editorial Cartoonist Signe Wilkinson was born in the depths of the baby boom and graduated from her suburban Philadelphia high school about the same year the SAT scores began their slide.
After acquiring a BA in English from a western university of middling academic reputation, Wilkinson was unprepared for real work ... so she became a reporter, stringing for the West Chester (PA) Daily Local News. She also worked for the Quakers, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and with a housing project in Cyprus, a job that ended with a bang when a coup d'etat was followed by a
After acquiring a BA in English from a western university of middling academic reputation, Wilkinson was unprepared for real work ... so she became a reporter, stringing for the West Chester (PA) Daily Local News. She also worked for the Quakers, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and with a housing project in Cyprus, a job that ended with a bang when a coup d'etat was followed by a
Operating as usual
My free speech cartoons with Jonathan Zimmerman’s “bracing” text won the gold Benjamin Franklin Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA). Great graduation present, friends!
Happy Mother's Day!
Philadelphia Inquirer Cartoon from 2017.
New fashion trends...
A cartoon from 2019
I wish this cartoon wasn't relevant anymore...
Let the Supreme Court regulate the men who make the babies. Old toon. Old problem. Old men making the decisions.
A 30-year-old Philly Daily News cartoon. We'll see if we're still standing 30 days from now.
FREE BEER and LIVE CARTOONISTS RUN AMOK! TOnight, 5-8PM at Scotts Lane Studios, 3510 Scotts Lane, Building #2, 19129. Meet Loose Parts genial creator Dave Blazek, Inky's Rob Tornoe (good one in today on our Amazonian Christmas), the brilliant "Alice" creator Andrea Beizer, national edit toonist Tom Stiglich, and leading comic book artist Pat Higgins. Plus a few of my toons. FAMILY DRAW this Sunday afternoon. Bring the kids--grandkids--any kids who love to draw. See you there.
TONIGHT! The incomparable Ed Sorel talks about childhood in the Bronx, trying to learn to draw at art school devoted to abstraction, how he finally came into his style, NYC literary life in the 1950s-60s until today,
and, most touchingly, his happy marriage and great kids. THe front piece drawing is a tender tribute to his late wife Nancy. Did I forget to mention he met her at Quaker meeting? Anyway, join by zoom, but buy "Profusely Illustrated" for every artist, aspiring artist, & political junkie you know. https://libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/event/108859
REGISTER In conversation with Signe Wilkinson One of Americas foremost political satirists (The New York Times), illustrator, caricaturist, and cartoonist Edward Sorel has illustrated 41 covers for The New Yorker and has published pictorial essays and features in The Nation, Vanity Fair, Esquire, an...
You're invited! I'm joining other local toonists from National Cartoonists Society are showing our toons at the Scotts Lane Gallery in East Falls. OPENING THIS FRIDAY NIGHT, December 10, 5-8.
Come visit and meet the makers... It's up through the new year but who doesn't want a cartoon for Christmas?
Nearly spilled my coffee over this AM's WSJ letters page featuring Donald J. Trump's delusional diatribe. Not cartooning regularly anymore but just couldn't resist. Looking forward to the WSJ print side's investigation into these claims.
PA GOP is just bound and determined to screw up our elections. So much easier than getting something done for the people of the state. s
The approximately 73% male Texas legislature and their 100% male (allegedly) Governor Abbott drove me out of retirement with their recent sanctimonious abortion legislation. If they wanted to end abortion they could zip up their pants and keep them zipped. I can't let my birth state go to the dogs without a fight!
Just found this old Sunday comic strip. Now that I am a grandmother (with a rather smaller dog, Toony), I wish I had a strip to record all the exhausting lessons the little rascals have taught me.
A brilliant young relative of mine who has actually spent time working in Afghanistan and knows more about that world than I ever will and saw this cartoon said, "Just don't be surprised how many Afghans would choose the 15th Century." Just a reminder how different our worlds are.
Flying the flag, one way or the other. From 2019.
One of the things I most like about in person voting is being recognized by the loyal volunteer neighbors who person the polling places for decades. But if we're going to have it for regular voters, we should have it for everyone who votes on laws that determine the future of our republic. Let's see... whom might that include?.... (from a previous supreme court)
One good thing about retirement is not having to jump to the drawing board at every jolt in news cycle. I'm going straight for the "olds cycle" (now known as "recycle") with a couple of toons done over the years about America's Dad -- from the time he advised young men to pull up their pants to a reminder that other
men accused of harassing apparently had better lawyers. I couldn't fit it in but before his fall from grace, I drew a 1997 sympathy cartoon when Cosby's son died.
“Riders of Justice”is best movie I’ve seen in, ummm, lots of years. Granted, I’m not a reliable critic. I leave that to Carrie Rickey and Gary Thompson. But if you’re looking for an action packed, slyly funny, ingeniously plotted, tender finish with lots of dead bodies, many great actors and one young actress, try it out.
It’s the exact opposite of Nomadland except that the two lead actors manage to get through their respective films with one facial expression. https://www.ridersofjustice.com
RIDERS OF JUSTICE follows recently-deployed Markus, who is forced to return home to his care for his teenage daughter after his wife is killed in a tragic train accident. But when a survivor of the wrecked train surfaces claiming foul play, Markus begins to suspect his wife was murdered and embarks....
I'm taking a little sabbatical to figure out life, finally. This is how I'm spending it.
Give a damn! Tune in THursday at noon to the National Archives program with my and co-conspirator Jonathan Zimmerman on our book "Free Speech and Why You Should Give a Damn." Former ACLU head Nadine Strossen will be quizzing us and you can send your questions, corrections or heckling comments. Noon! See you there.
Ummm. Anyone else a little nervous that over half of US companies, local governments, schools, healthcare etc., etc. etc. have a propensity to be hit by ransomware (according to 5/11/21 WSJ chart)? Pipeline just the biggest to directly hit our wallets and interconnected digital security.
Don't you just hate clean air, clean streams and clean oceans?
The American judicial system diagramed. Who's more powerful, Mark Zuckerberg or John Roberts?
Liz Cheney takes the measure of her GOP colleagues. https://www.gocomics.com/signewilkinson/2021/05/05
View the comic strip for Signe Wilkinson by cartoonist Signe Wilkinson created May 05, 2021 available on GoComics.com
Much as I prefer sending paper products through the mail to sending messages via snoop dog internet providers, I recently received a post card mailed from approximately 5 miles away in another Philadelphia zip code well over two weeks after it was mailed. Sigh. https://www.gocomics.com/signewilkinson/2021/05/03
View the comic strip for Signe Wilkinson by cartoonist Signe Wilkinson created May 03, 2021 available on GoComics.com
Let me be the last to wish everyone a liberated World Press Freedom Day. Odd it's still called free "Press". My former "papers" just got rid of their presses. The internet spreads the news but news PAPERS are better imagery for cartooning. Knowing what cartoonists around the world have faced, I'm grateful for our free speech protections.
Some people like the Biden immigration policies. https://www.gocomics.com/signewilkinson/2021/04/29
View the comic strip for Signe Wilkinson by cartoonist Signe Wilkinson created April 29, 2021 available on GoComics.com
The South will rise again ... with an invasion of Northerners! https://www.gocomics.com/signewilkinson/2021/04/28
View the comic strip for Signe Wilkinson by cartoonist Signe Wilkinson created April 28, 2021 available on GoComics.com
If we’re so great at creating vaccines, why can’t we figure out this one? https://www.gocomics.com/signewilkinson/2021/04/27
View the comic strip for Signe Wilkinson by cartoonist Signe Wilkinson created April 27, 2021 available on GoComics.com
Darnella Frazier was the heroine of the George Floyd tragedy. Her presence reminded me of the old Sunday School ditty, she knows when you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake! https://www.gocomics.com/signewilkinson/2021/04/23
View the comic strip for Signe Wilkinson by cartoonist Signe Wilkinson created April 23, 2021 available on GoComics.com
My eleventh commandment: I shalt not buy from Amazon. https://www.gocomics.com/signewilkinson/2021/04/22
View the comic strip for Signe Wilkinson by cartoonist Signe Wilkinson created April 22, 2021 available on GoComics.com
Looking at the yet unopened Jury Duty notice sitting next to my drawing board, I started thinking what it must be like for the jurors deliberating today at the Chauvin trial. No matter their decision, they will change history for more than the man on trial.
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state...."
How about some infrastructure for equality?
https://www.gocomics.com/signewilkinson/2021/04/15
View the comic strip for Signe Wilkinson by cartoonist Signe Wilkinson created April 15, 2021 available on GoComics.com
801 Market St, 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA
19106
Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Signe Wilkinson posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
Send a message to Signe Wilkinson: