Michael de Adder

Michael de Adder
Born (1967-05-25) 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, Ontario.

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, 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

  1. ↑ Fredericton art gallery to display political cartoons by Michael de Adder Chronicle Herald
  2. ↑ For Michael de Adder, it’s all about making people laugh Chronicle Herald
  3. 1 2 Michael Deadder, Depictions, Nimbus, 2013
  4. ↑ Mount Allison University, Deadder Bio


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