Michael de Adder (born May 25, 1967) is a Canadian

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and caricaturist.

Early life and education

Born in

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, he attended Riverview High School. He then graduated from

Mount Allison University Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a Canadian primarily undergraduate liberal arts university located in Sackville, New Brunswick, founded in 1839. Like other liberal arts colleges in North America, Mount Allison does not par ...

with a

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in 1991. While at Mount Allison, he began drawing cartoons for ''The Argosy'', the school's student newspaper.

Career

De Adder 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,

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. This led to freelance jobs at ''

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'' and ''

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'' in

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, Ontario. In 2000, he began working at '' The Daily News'' of Halifax until its closure in 2008. His work appears regularly in the ''

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'', ''

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'', ''The Chronicle-Herald'' and the Moncton ''

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''. His work is

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in North America through Artizans.com. He continues to be a weekly contributor to ''The Hill Times'' as well as to Canadian ''

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'' dailies. He draws approximately ten cartoons weekly and, at over a million readers per day, is considered the most read cartoonist in Canada. He is a past president of the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists and is on the board of the Cartoonists Rights Network, International. Michael de Adder, 2019

In June 2019, de Adder had his freelance contract with the

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terminated following his drawing of a cartoon criticising U.S. President

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's border policies. The cartoon showed President Trump playing golf and ignoring the dead, face down, drowned bodies of a Salvadoran man, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old, small daughter, Angie Valeria Martinez, who had attempted to cross the Rio Grande, from Mexico, into the United States. The Brunswick News issued a statement saying that they had not been offered the cartoon and that the decision to replace de Adder with another cartoonist had been made some weeks previously. In March 2021, de Adder was hired by ''

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''.

Awards

He was nominated for a

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in 2002, 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2021. He was chosen the winner of the National Newspaper Award for Editorial Cartooning for 2020. He won the

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' Golden Spike Award in 2006 for the best cartoon killed by an editor. De Adder is the 2020 recipient of the

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for editorial cartooning. He was awarded an

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in May 2020.

Publications

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References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:De Adder, Michael 1967 births Living people Artists from New Brunswick Canadian editorial cartoonists Canadian caricaturists Canadian comics artists Mount Allison University alumni People from Moncton The Washington Post people