Michael Sloan

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Michael Sloan
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Sloan at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
Alma mater Rhode Island School of Design
Occupation(s)Illustrator, cartoonist, musician
Notable workWelcome to the New World, The Zen of Nimbus comic, the music album Baldwin.
Website http://www.michaelsloan.net

Michael Sloan is an American freelance illustrator. In 2018, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning along with Jake Halpern, for their comic Welcome to the New World. In 2020, Halpern and Sloan published a graphic novel under the same name. [1]

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Michael is also a musician, composer, and recording artist. [2] He has produced over 100 albums. Many of his albums are named after people that have had a profound influence on his work. He designs and creates the artwork for his album covers.[ citation needed ]

After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Michael worked as a printmaker in Paris and Venice before moving to New York City where he began his career as an illustrator. [3] [4] His first published assignment appeared on the New York Times Op-Ed page. [4] Since then his artwork has been published by many newspapers and magazines including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, The New Yorker, and over 100 times in the New York Times Op-Ed Letters column. Michael’s work has been awarded three silver medals from The Society of Illustrators in NYC, and has appeared frequently in American Illustration and the Communication Arts Illustration Annual. For many years he performed with the all-illustrators jazz band The Half-Tones at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. [4]

Michael has lectured at many institutions and organizations such as the University of Connecticut, Hong Kong University, Yale Law School, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. [4] He is an associate fellow at the Ezra Stiles College of Yale University. [5] He has taught illustration at the University of Connecticut and the Rhode Island School of Design.[ citation needed ]

Michael spent a year with his family living and working in Hong Kong, where he created a series of paintings of traditional street markets. He has shown these paintings in solo exhibits in the United States and Hong Kong. [6] [7]

Sloan and author Jake Halpern created Welcome to the New World, a comic strip for the New York Times about of a refugee family who fled the civil war in Syria to make a new life in America. [8] Michael and Jake were awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning for Welcome to the New World. [8] A graphic novel based on the comic was published in September, 2020. [9]

He is a member of PEN America, the Lute Society of America, and the Society of Illustrators.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. 1 2 Cavna, Michael (2018-04-16). "Cartooning Pulitzer goes to a game-changer: An electronic comic book by two creators". Washington Post. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  2. ↑ "About my music". The Zen of Nimbus. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  3. ↑ Sloan, Michael (2009-06-11). "The Zen of Professor Nimbus: The Ubiquity of Chinese Takeout". Reactor Magazine. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Roalf, Peggy (2015-10-26). "The Q&A: Michael Sloan". American Illustration and American Photography. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  5. ↑ "Ezra Stiles Fellows". Ezra Stiles College. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  6. ↑ Roalf, Peggy (2017-08-17). "Michael Sloan's Sketchbooks". DART. Retrieved 2024-09-27– via American Illustration and American Photography.
  7. ↑ "Exhibition features scenes of Hong Kong street markets". Yale News. 2013-09-12. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  8. 1 2 Cooke, Rachel (2020-09-15). "Welcome to the New World: Waking Up in Trump's America – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  9. 1 2 Halpern, Jake (2020-09-22). Welcome to the New World. Illustrated by Michael Sloan. Metropolitan Books. ISBN   978-1250305596.
  10. ↑ Sloan, Michael (2004). Professor Nimbus and the amazing spectacles. The Chronicles of Nimbus.
  11. ↑ Sloan, Michael (2006). The Heresy of Nimbus.


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