About Michael Sloan

Michael Sloan is an illustrator and a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.

After graduating from The Rhode Island School of Design, Michael worked as a printmaker in Paris, France and Venice, Italy before moving to NYC where he began his career as an illustrator. His first published assignment appeared on the New York Times Op-Ed page. Since then his artwork has been published by many newspapers and magazines including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the New Yorker, and over 100 times in the New York Times Op-Ed Letters column. Michael’s work has been awarded three silver medals from The Society of Illustrators in NYC, and has appeared frequently in American Illustration and the Communication Arts Illustration Annual.

Michael has lectured about his artwork at institutions and organizations such as The University of Connecticut, Hong Kong University, The Yale Club of Hong Kong, Yale University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and The Fashion Institute of Technology. He is an associate fellow at Ezra Stiles College, Yale University.

Michael spent a year with his family living and working in Hong Kong, where he created a series of paintings of traditional street markets. He has shown these paintings in solo exhibits in the USA and Hong Kong.

Michael and the author Jake Halpern created Welcome to the New World, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic story of a refugee family who fled the civil war in Syria to make a new life in America. Michael and Jake were awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning for Welcome to the New World. Their graphic novel based on this groundbreaking comic will be published by Metropolitan Books in September, 2020, and is available for pre-order now on Amazon. Welcome to the New World will be published in the UK by Bloomsbury Publishing and is currently available for pre-order on Amazon UK.