Michael de Adder

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Michael de Adder was born on May 25, 1967 in Moncton. He is a Canadian editorial cartoonist, attended Mount Allison University and completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1991 and worked for Halifax Daily News until it closed its doors in February 2008. He began his career working for The Coast, a Halifax-based alternative weekly, drawing a popular comic strip called "Walterworld" that satirized the then current Halifax mayor, Walter Fitzgerald. This led him to get freelance jobs at the "Chronicle Herald" and "The Hill Times" in Ottawa. In 2000, he landed a full-time job at the Halifax Daily News and won numerous awards for his editorial cartoons. He was nominated for the 2002 National Newspaper Award and won the 2006 American Association of Editorial Cartoonists “Golden Spike” Award for best cartoon designed by an editor. Today, his work also appears regularly in the "National Post", "Maclean's The Chronicle Herald" and "Moncton Times & Transcript". His work is published in North America through Artizans.com. Likewise, he continues to collaborate weekly with the "Hill Times" and with the "Canadian Metro" newspapers. Michael de Adder is a former president of the Canadian Editorial Cartoonists Association and sits on the board of directors of Cartoonists Rights Network. He draws about 10 cartoons weekly and, with more than a million readers per day, he is considered the most widely read cartoonist in Canada.