Signe Wilkinson draws four cartoons a week for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Inquirer.com. They are syndicated nationally by the Washington Post Writers Group and are posted regularly on all social media platforms. 

Signe studied art, though not long enough, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia where she was taught how to draw a hand from the late master teacher Robert Beverley Hale who would cry if he saw how little she’d learned.  The great caricaturist and satirist Edward Sorel who took one look at her wan line of her early cartoons and exclaimed, “So this is what cartooning has come to in the later part of the 20th Century.”  He then took out a sheet of tracing paper, drew over her work to show her how it was done, they remain friends.

In addition to two small collections, “Abortion Cartoons on Demand’ and “One Nation, Under Surveillance”, her work has appeared in many collections, most recently, “Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists” by Martha H. Kennedy. Wilkinson has won major cartooning awards including the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. Most notably, she was named "Pennsylvania State Vegetable Substitute" by the former Speaker of the PA House of Representatives. In addition to two small collections, “Abortion Cartoons on Demand’ and “One Nation, Under Surveillance”, her work has appeared in many collections, most recently, “Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists” by Martha H. Kennedy. Wilkinson had wom

SPEAKING: Signe has spoken and given classes at Universities from Santa Clara University to the University of North Dakota (IN JANUARY!) to Philadelphia’s Drexel, and Temple Universities and the University of Pennsylvania. She also enjoys speaking at women’s clubs, Rotaries, retirement communities and to pretty much anyone else who would like to see her cartoons.

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