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| birth_place = [[Moncton, New Brunswick]], Canada
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'''Michael de Adder''' (born May 25, 1967) is a Canadian [[editorial cartoonist]] and caricaturist.<ref name = lambiek>{{cite web |title=Michael De Adder |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/de_adder_michael.htm |website=[[Lambiek#Comiclopedia | Lambiek Comiclopedia]] |access-date=6 March 2020}}</ref>
'''Michael de Adder''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|size=100%|CM}} (born May 25, 1967) is a Canadian [[editorial cartoonist]] and caricaturist.<ref name = lambiek>{{cite web |title=Michael De Adder |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/de_adder_michael.htm |website=[[Lambiek#Comiclopedia|Lambiek Comiclopedia]] |access-date=6 March 2020}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Born in [[Moncton]], he attended [[Riverview High School (New Brunswick)|Riverview High School]].<ref>{{cite news|url= http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1368426-fredericton-art-gallery-to-display-political-cartoons-by-michael-de-adder |title= Fredericton art gallery to display political cartoons by Michael de Adder |date= May 30, 2016 |work= The Chronicle Herald |url-status= dead |archive-date= May 31, 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160531102514/https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1368426-fredericton-art-gallery-to-display-political-cartoons-by-michael-de-adder/ }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1324926-for-michael-de-adder-it%E2%80%99s-all-about-making-people-laugh |title= For Michael de Adder, it’s all about making people laugh |first= Evan |last= Webster |date= November 29, 2015 |work= The Chronicle Herald |url-status= dead |archive-date= December 12, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151212111530/http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1324926-for-michael-de-adder-it%E2%80%99s-all-about-making-people-laugh }}</ref>
Born in [[Moncton]], he attended [[Riverview High School (New Brunswick)|Riverview High School]].<ref>{{cite news|url= http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1368426-fredericton-art-gallery-to-display-political-cartoons-by-michael-de-adder |title= Fredericton art gallery to display political cartoons by Michael de Adder |date= May 30, 2016 |work= The Chronicle Herald |url-status= dead |archive-date= May 31, 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160531102514/https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1368426-fredericton-art-gallery-to-display-political-cartoons-by-michael-de-adder/ }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1324926-for-michael-de-adder-it%E2%80%99s-all-about-making-people-laugh |title= For Michael de Adder, it's all about making people laugh |first= Evan |last= Webster |date= November 29, 2015 |work= The Chronicle Herald |url-status= dead |archive-date= December 12, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151212111530/http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1324926-for-michael-de-adder-it%E2%80%99s-all-about-making-people-laugh }}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
De Adder began his career working for ''[[The Coast]]'', a [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]]-based alternative weekly, drawing a popular comic strip called ''Walterworld'' which lampooned the then-current mayor of Halifax, [[Walter Fitzgerald (politician)|Walter Fitzgerald]].<ref name=Depictions>{{cite book|last=de Adder|first=Michael|title=dePictions|place=Halifax, N. S.|publisher=Nimbus Publishing|year=2013|isbn=978-1-77108-089-7}}</ref>{{rp|xiii}} <ref name="lambiek" />This led to freelance jobs at ''[[The Chronicle Herald|The Chronicle-Herald]]'' and ''[[The Hill Times]]'' in [[Ottawa]], Ontario.
De Adder began his career working for ''[[The Coast (newspaper)|The Coast]]'', a [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]]-based alternative weekly, drawing a popular comic strip called ''Walterworld'' which lampooned the then-current mayor of Halifax, [[Walter Fitzgerald (politician)|Walter Fitzgerald]].<ref name=Depictions>{{cite book|last=de Adder|first=Michael|title=dePictions|place=Halifax, N. S.|publisher=Nimbus Publishing|year=2013|isbn=978-1-77108-089-7}}</ref>{{rp|xiii}} <ref name="lambiek" /> This led to freelance jobs at ''[[The Chronicle Herald|The Chronicle-Herald]]'' and ''[[The Hill Times]]'' in [[Ottawa]], Ontario.


In 2000, he began working at ''[[The Daily News (Halifax)|The Daily News]]'' of Halifax until its closure in 2008.
In 2000, he began working at ''[[The Daily News (Halifax)|The Daily News]]'' of Halifax until its closure in 2008.
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[[File:Deadder1.jpg|thumb|A de Adder cartoon]]
[[File:Deadder1.jpg|thumb|A de Adder cartoon]]


His work appears regularly in the ''[[National Post]]'', ''[[Maclean's]]'', ''The Chronicle-Herald'' and the Moncton ''[[Times & Transcript]]''. His work is [[Print syndication|syndicated]] in North America through Artizans.com. He continues to be a weekly contributor to ''The Hill Times'' as well as to Canadian ''[[Metro International|Metro]]'' dailies. He draws approximately ten cartoons weekly and, at over a million readers per day, is considered the most read cartoonist in Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mta.ca/apply/life/deadder_bfa.html |title=It’s just politics: Michael deAdder becomes most read cartoonist in Canada|website=mta.ca|publisher=Mount Allison University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110701084525/http://www.mta.ca/apply/life/deadder_bfa.html|archive-date=2011-07-01}}</ref>
His work appears regularly in the ''[[National Post]]'', ''[[Maclean's]]'', ''The Chronicle-Herald'' and the Moncton ''[[Times & Transcript]]''. His work is [[Print syndication|syndicated]] in North America through Artizans.com. He continues to be a weekly contributor to ''The Hill Times'' as well as to Canadian ''[[Metro International|Metro]]'' dailies. He draws approximately ten cartoons weekly and, at over a million readers per day, is considered the most read cartoonist in Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mta.ca/apply/life/deadder_bfa.html |title=It's just politics: Michael deAdder becomes most read cartoonist in Canada|website=mta.ca|publisher=Mount Allison University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110701084525/http://www.mta.ca/apply/life/deadder_bfa.html|archive-date=2011-07-01}}</ref>


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


[[File:Michael de Adder, 2019.jpg|thumb|Michael de Adder, invited exhibitor and speaker at [[1001 visages]] in October 2019]]In June 2019, de Adder had his freelance contract with the [[Brunswick News]] terminated following his drawing of a cartoon criticising U.S. President [[Donald Trump]]'s [[Immigration policy of Donald Trump#Border security and border wall with Mexico|border policies]]. The cartoon showed President Trump playing golf and ignoring the dead, face down, drowned bodies of a Salvadoran man, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month old, small daughter, Angie Valeria Martinez, who had attempted to cross the Rio Grande, from Mexico, into the United States. The 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/06/29/brunswick-news-inc-cancels-michael-de-adder/ |title=Brunswick News Inc. cancels Michael de Adder |last=Degg |first=D. D. |work=The Daily Cartoonist |date=June 29, 2019 |access-date=2019-06-30 }}</ref>
[[File:Michael de Adder, 2019.jpg|thumb|Michael de Adder, invited exhibitor and speaker at [[1001 visages]] in October 2019]]In June 2019, de Adder had his freelance contract with [[Brunswick News|Brunswick News, Inc.]] (BNI) terminated following his drawing of a cartoon criticising U.S. President [[Donald Trump]]'s [[Immigration policy of Donald Trump#Border security and border wall with Mexico|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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/06/29/brunswick-news-inc-cancels-michael-de-adder/ |title=Brunswick News Inc. cancels Michael de Adder |last=Degg |first=D. D. |work=The Daily Cartoonist |date=June 29, 2019 |access-date=2019-06-30 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-07-03 |title=Cartoonist set to replace de Adder quits, says he 'wouldn't wish this on anyone' |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brunswick-news-cartoonist-greg-perry-1.5198786 |access-date=2024-02-24 |website=CBC News}}</ref>


In March 2021, de Adder was hired by ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Michael de Adder joins Washington Post Opinions as a political cartoonist |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2021/03/26/michael-de-adder-joins-washington-post-opinions-political-cartoonist/ |website=WashPost PR Blog |publisher=The Washington Post |access-date=26 March 2021 |date=26 March 2021}}</ref>
In March 2021, de Adder was hired by ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Michael de Adder joins Washington Post Opinions as a political cartoonist |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2021/03/26/michael-de-adder-joins-washington-post-opinions-political-cartoonist/ |website=WashPost PR Blog |publisher=The Washington Post |access-date=26 March 2021 |date=26 March 2021}}</ref> He would leave the ''Post'' in January 2024.<ref>[https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/07/de-adder-and-wapo-part-ways/ de Adder and WaPo Part Ways? – update]</ref>

On October 8, 2024, de Adder announced on Facebook he was "let go" by the Chronicle Herald after 27 years of working there.<ref>{{cite web |title=de Adder announces being let go by Chronicle Herald |url=https://www.facebook.com/michael.deadder/posts/pfbid0vaFXV9ZVBfh8iPfKE95hTbESt7RZco7zG4mgxrCVGY3W75xvqXZkieogf8N9XJwxl |website=Facebook - de Adder's page |access-date=8 October 2024}}</ref> This was subsequently confirmed and reported by other media outlets.<ref>{{cite web |title=de Adder let go by Chronicle Herald |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/michael-de-adder-dropped-from-halifax-newspaper-1.7180012 |website=CBC |access-date=10 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=de Adder let go by Chronicle Herald |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/10803453/michael-de-adder-editorial-cartoonist-let-go-chronicle-herald/ |website=Global News |access-date=10 October 2024}}</ref>


==Awards==
==Awards==
He was nominated for a [[National Newspaper Awards|National Newspaper Award]] in 2002, 2014, 2015, and 2018. He won the [[Association of American Editorial Cartoonists]]' Golden Spike Award in 2006 for the best cartoon killed by an editor.<ref name=Depictions/>{{rp|xvii}}
He was nominated for a [[National Newspaper Awards|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.<ref name=Depictions/>{{rp|xvii}}
De Adder is the 2020 recipient of the [[Herblock Prize]] for editorial cartooning. He was awarded an [[Honorary degree | honorary doctorate]] by [[Mount Allison University]] in May 2020.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mount Allison Honorary Degrees |url=https://www.mta.ca/Community/Convocation/Honorary_degrees/Honorary_degrees/ |access-date=31 Dec 2020 |agency=Mount Allison University |date=May 2020}}</ref>
De Adder is the 2020 recipient of the [[Herblock Prize]] for editorial cartooning.
He was awarded an [[Honorary degree|honorary doctorate]] by [[Mount Allison University]] in May 2020.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mount Allison Honorary Degrees |url=https://www.mta.ca/Community/Convocation/Honorary_degrees/Honorary_degrees/ |access-date=31 Dec 2020 |agency=Mount Allison University |date=May 2020}}</ref>

He was appointed a Member of the [[Order of Canada]] in 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gg.ca/en/order-canada-appointees-december-2023|title=Order of Canada appointees – December 2023 |publisher=[[Governor General of Canada]]|accessdate=2023-12-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Huras |first1=Adam |title=Two NBers appointed to Order of Canada |url=https://tj.news/new-brunswick/breaking-two-nbers-appointed-to-order-of-canada |access-date=28 December 2023 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=28 December 2023}}</ref>


==Publications==
==Publications==
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==External links==
==External links==
* {{cite web |url= http://www.cagle.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/deadder.asp |title= Michael de Adder |publisher= [[Daryl Cagle|Cagle]] |url-status= dead |archive-date= October 9, 2009 |archive-url= http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091009005729/http://www.cagle.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/deadder.asp }}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.cagle.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/deadder.asp |title= Michael de Adder |publisher= [[Daryl Cagle|Cagle]] |url-status= dead |archive-date= October 9, 2009 |archive-url= http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091009005729/http://www.cagle.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/deadder.asp }}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.canadiancartoonists.com/cartoonist_deadder.html |title= Michael de Adder |publisher= [[Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists|ACEC]] |url-status= dead |archive-date= May 16, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060516004036/http://www.canadiancartoonists.com/cartoonist_deadder.html }}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.canadiancartoonists.com/cartoonist_deadder.html |title= Michael de Adder |publisher= [[Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists|ACEC]] |url-status= usurped |archive-date= May 16, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060516004036/http://www.canadiancartoonists.com/cartoonist_deadder.html }}
* {{cite web |url= https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/de_adder_michael.htm |title= Michael de Adder |publisher= [[Lambiek]] }}
* {{cite web |url= https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/de_adder_michael.htm |title= Michael de Adder |publisher= [[Lambiek]] }}


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Michael de Adder
CM
Michael de Adder
Michael de Adder
Born (1967-05-25) May 25, 1967 (age 57)
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
OccupationEditorial cartoonist
ChildrenTwo
Website
deadder.net

Michael de Adder CM (born May 25, 1967) is a Canadian editorial cartoonist and caricaturist.[1]

Early life and education

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Born in Moncton, he attended Riverview High School.[2] 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.[3]

Career

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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.[4]: xiii  [1] This led to freelance jobs at The Chronicle-Herald and The Hill Times in Ottawa, Ontario.

In 2000, he began working at The Daily News of Halifax until its closure in 2008.

A de Adder cartoon

His work appears regularly in the National Post, Maclean's, The Chronicle-Herald and the Moncton Times & Transcript. His work is syndicated in North America through Artizans.com. He continues to be a weekly contributor to The Hill Times as well as to Canadian Metro dailies. He draws approximately ten cartoons weekly and, at over a million readers per day, is considered the most read cartoonist in Canada.[5]

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

Michael de Adder, invited exhibitor and speaker at 1001 visages in October 2019

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.[6][7]

In March 2021, de Adder was hired by The Washington Post.[8] He would leave the Post in January 2024.[9]

On October 8, 2024, de Adder announced on Facebook he was "let go" by the Chronicle Herald after 27 years of working there.[10] This was subsequently confirmed and reported by other media outlets.[11][12]

Awards

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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.[4]: xvii  De Adder is the 2020 recipient of the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.

He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Mount Allison University in May 2020.[13]

He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2023.[14][15]

Publications

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  • deBook. Montreal, Que.: Transcontinental. 2007. ISBN 978-0-9736425-2-0.
  • You Might Be from Nova Scotia If …. Lunenburg, N. S.: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing. 2013. ISBN 978-1-927097-39-7.
  • dePictions. Halifax, N. S.: Nimbus Publishing. 2013. ISBN 978-1-77108-089-7.
  • Drawing Opinions: MacKinnon, DeAdder & More: Cartoons and the Stories that Inspire Them. Halifax, N. S.: Chronicle Herald. 2013. ISBN 978-1-894420-43-3.
  • You Might Be from New Brunswick If …. Lunenburg, N. S.: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing. 2014. ISBN 978-1-927097-65-6.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Michael De Adder". Lambiek Comiclopedia. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Fredericton art gallery to display political cartoons by Michael de Adder". The Chronicle Herald. May 30, 2016. Archived from the original on May 31, 2016.
  3. ^ Webster, Evan (November 29, 2015). "For Michael de Adder, it's all about making people laugh". The Chronicle Herald. Archived from the original on December 12, 2015.
  4. ^ a b de Adder, Michael (2013). dePictions. Halifax, N. S.: Nimbus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-77108-089-7.
  5. ^ "It's just politics: Michael deAdder becomes most read cartoonist in Canada". mta.ca. Mount Allison University. Archived from the original on 2011-07-01.
  6. ^ Degg, D. D. (June 29, 2019). "Brunswick News Inc. cancels Michael de Adder". The Daily Cartoonist. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
  7. ^ "Cartoonist set to replace de Adder quits, says he 'wouldn't wish this on anyone'". CBC News. 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  8. ^ "Michael de Adder joins Washington Post Opinions as a political cartoonist". WashPost PR Blog. The Washington Post. 26 March 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  9. ^ de Adder and WaPo Part Ways? – update
  10. ^ "de Adder announces being let go by Chronicle Herald". Facebook - de Adder's page. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  11. ^ "de Adder let go by Chronicle Herald". CBC. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
  12. ^ "de Adder let go by Chronicle Herald". Global News. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
  13. ^ "Mount Allison Honorary Degrees". Mount Allison University. May 2020. Retrieved 31 Dec 2020.
  14. ^ "Order of Canada appointees – December 2023". Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  15. ^ Huras, Adam (28 December 2023). "Two NBers appointed to Order of Canada". Telegraph-Journal. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
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