Ann Telnaes
Editorial cartoonist working in animation, visual essays, live sketches and traditional print. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner (2001, 2025); Reuben Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year 2016; Herblock Prize 2023.
Biography
Ann Telnaes creates editorial cartoons in various mediums — animation, visual essays, live sketches and traditional print. She has won the Pulitzer Prize twice for her editorial cartoons, in 2001 and 2025, the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in 2016, the international EWK Award in 2021 and the Herblock Prize in 2023.
After working for The Washington Post for over sixteen years, she resigned after a cartoon she submitted was rejected because it criticised billionaire tech and media executives for trying to curry favour with President Trump. Her print work was shown in a solo exhibition at the Library of Congress in 2004, and her work has been exhibited in Paris, Jerusalem and Lisbon.
She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in character animation and worked for several years as a designer for Walt Disney Imagineering before beginning her career as an editorial cartoonist. She is a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and a member of the National Cartoonists Society.