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"Mikhaela Reid has what every great editorial cartoonist needs most - passion. Her work is insightful, inventive, and unambiguous. She is way too good to be so young."
"With America's most treasured values under relentless assault,
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About Mikhaela B. Reid
Mikhaela B. Reid is a
freelance political cartoonist and illustrator whose work has appeared
in the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Boston Phoenix, Bay
Windows, Metro Times,
The Rochester Insider,
Women's eNews, In
These Times, Ms.,
The Funny Times, Campus
Progress, Girlfriends,
The Minnesota Women's Press,
and other assorted fine publications. She has been a member of the Association
of American Editorial Cartoonists since 2003, and is a founding member
of Cartoonists With
Attitude. In 2006, she was named one of Girls in Government’s
Real Hot 100 young women for
her cartooning work.
Mikhaela was born in 1980 and grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, where she attended
Lowell High School and served as president of the Lowell High School Rainbow
Connection Gay/Straight Alliance. In 2003 she graduated from Harvard University
where she studied social anthropology and photography and drew weekly
political cartoons for the Harvard Crimson. From 2003-2006 she worked
as an information graphics designer at the Wall Street Journal.
She lives in Brooklyn with fellow cartoonist Masheka
Wood, their daughter Z and their demented cats Riley and Ronnie.
She
loves: the Boondocks, This Modern World, Tom the Dancing Bug, Ted Rall, the K Chronicles, Dykes to Watch Out For, Wendel, the Dead
Kennedys, Le Tigre, The Coup, Sleater-Kinney, Johnny Cash, Billy Bragg, Ted Leo + the Pharmacists,
Sherman Alexie, Margaret Cho, sewing magazines, peanut butter,
steamed dumplings and science fiction.
And to break out of the third person for a moment, if you are a professional publication interested in purchasing rights to use my cartoons in your print edition or website, please drop me an email at boilingpointcartoon@mac.com. Reprint rates are reasonable and vary depending on your budget. If you are from a political organization that would like to use my artwork or cartoons for a good cause, I'm into that too, and you can also email me at boilingpointcartoon@mac.com |
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