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Ann Telnaes is a freelance cartoonist whose work appears regularly in the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Le Monde, Baltimore Sun, and USA Today, Austin American-Statesman, and other highly-regarded newspapers.

In 2001 Telnaes became the second woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning and in 1997 she received the National Headliner Award for Editorial Cartoons.

Before beginning her career as an editorial cartoonist, Telnaes worked at Warner Bros. and Walt Disney Imagineering. She has been an animator and layout designer for various animation studios in London, Los Angeles, Taiwan, and New York.

Born in in Stockholm in 1960, Telnaes became a U.S. citizen at the age of thirteen. She is a board member of the Cartoonists Rights Network and the National Cartoonists Society Foundation. She is a past vice president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and a member of the American Newswomen’s Club.

Telnaes lives and works in Washington D.C.

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