Amy Hwang is a cartoonist for ''

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'' and is probably the first Asian woman to have drawn cartoons openly for the magazine. Hwang was born in Arlington, Texas. She graduated from

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

in 2000 with a degree in

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. As a first-year at Barnard, Hwang started drawing cartoons for the '' Columbia Daily Spectator'' in 1997. After graduating, she worked at an architecture firm, which she later left so that she could become a cartoonist full-time. She has worked as a cartoonist with ''The New Yorker'' since 2010. Hwang won National Cartoonists Society's 2019 Silver

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for

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s. She also curated an art exhibit with the cartoonist Jeremy Nguyen called "Asian Babies: Works from Asian 'New Yorker' Cartoonists". The exhibit ran from October 4, 2019, to January 12, 2020, at

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, where Hwang held an artist-in-residence position. The exhibit featured the works of ten cartoonists of Asian descent, including Monroe Leung, the first Asian American cartoonist to be published in ''The New Yorker''. In 2021, Hwang spoke on a virtual

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panel titled "Some Very Funny Ladies" alongside

Liza Donnelly Liza Donnelly is an American cartoonist and writer, best known for her work in ''The New Yorker'' and is resident cartoonist of CBS News. Donnelly is the creator of digital live drawing, a new form of journalism wherein she draws using a tablet, ...

Roz Chast Rosalind Chast (born November 26, 1954) is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for ''The New Yorker''. Since 1978, she has published more than 800 cartoons in ''The New Yorker''. She also publishes cartoons in ''Scientific American'' and ...

and

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. Hwang is mentioned in

's 2022 book, ''Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists''. Hwang's cartoon style predominantly consists of clean lines, soft gray washes, with pen and ink on paper.

Resources

External links

Amy Hwang's official website
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