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Mikhaela Reid
BornMikhaela Blake Reid
(1980-06-01) June 1, 1980 (age 44)
Lowell, Massachusetts
Nationality
American
Area(s)Cartoonist
Notable works
Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela!

Mikhaela Blake Reid (born June 1, 1980 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is an editorial cartoonist whose work has appeared in various alternative newspapers and magazines, including The Boston Phoenix, Bay Windows, Metro Times, and In These Times, and was also reprinted in Los Angeles Times. Reid frequently draws cartoons supporting LGBT rights.

Reid worked as an information graphics designer at the Wall Street Journal, where one of the articles she worked on won a Pulitzer Prize.[1] Currently, she's employed at United Media.

Reid was profiled in the 2004 book Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists, edited by award-winning syndicated editorial cartoonist Ted Rall. Rall would later write the foreword to Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela!, a collection of Reid's editorial cartoons.

Reid currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband, Masheka Wood, and their two children.[2]

Bibliography

  • Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela! (Calamity Press, 2007) ISBN 978-0979581908

References

  1. ^ "The Pulitzers are in..." Mikhaela.net. April 5, 2004. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
  2. ^ "About the Artists & Writers," African-American Classics, Graphic Classics vol. 22 (Eureka Productions, 2011).

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