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A native Texan, Signe Wilkinson began her career as a journalist where she soon realized her interest in cartooning as she began drawing the subjects she was supposed to be covering. After attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and freelancing, Wilkinson joined the staff of the San Jose Mercury News. In 1985 she returned to Philadelphia as the editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Daily News.
Wilkinson was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, in 1992, and served as the president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in 1994–1995. Wilkinson has also won the 1991 Berryman Award, the 1997, 2001 and 2007 Overseas Press Club Award, and the 2002 RFK Journalism Award. Her most cherished honor was being named "the Pennsylvania state vegetable substitute" by the former speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1989. Wilkinson’s editorial cartoons are syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group. She has contributed to many magazines, conceived and illustrated the 1999 Rizzoli calendar, "How to Grow the $735 Tomato," and recently illustrated UnSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation and Mike McGrath’s Book of Compost. In 2005 she published a collection of her work entitled One Nation, Under Surveillance.
Wilkinson values her intensely unremarkable family life, which is marked by her interest in growing outdoor lilies, killing indoor orchids, finding an easy way to match her husband’s socks and trying to figure out why Paris Hilton is famous.
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