Michael de Adder

Michael de Adder (born 25 May 1967) is a Canadian editorial cartoonist and caricaturist.

Early life and education Born in Moncton, he attended Riverview High School. 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.

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, Walter Fitzgerald.

He is a past president of the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists and is on the board of the Cartoonists Rights Network, International.

In June 2019, de Adder had his freelance contract with Brunswick News, Inc. (BNI) terminated following his drawing of a cartoon criticising U.S. President Donald Trump's border policies. The cartoon showed President Trump playing golf and ignoring the dead, face down, drowned bodies of two Mexican migrants. 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 The Washington Post. He would leave the Post in January 2024.

On 8 October 2024, de Adder announced on Facebook he was "let go" by the Chronicle Herald after 27 years of working there. This was subsequently confirmed and reported by other media outlets.

Awards He was nominated for a National Newspaper Award 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 Association of American Editorial Cartoonists' Golden Spike Award in 2006 for the best cartoon killed by an editor.

He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2023.

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