Mikhaela Blake Reid (born June 1, 1980, in
Lowell,
) is an
editorial cartoonist whose work has appeared in various
alternative newspapers and
magazine
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s, including ''
The Boston Phoenix'', ''
Bay Windows
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Types
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'', ''
Metro Times
The ''Detroit Metro Times'' is a progressive alternative weekly located in Detroit, Michigan. It is the largest circulating weekly newspaper in the metro Detroit area.
History and content
Supported entirely by advertising, it is distributed f ...
'', and ''
In These Times'', and was also reprinted in ''
Los Angeles Times
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''. Reid frequently draws cartoons supporting
LGBT rights
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Notably, , 33 ...
.
Reid worked as an information graphics designer at the ''
Wall Street Journal
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'', where one of the articles she worked on won a
Pulitzer Prize
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. 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 describes herself as growing up as "a very angry punk rock bisexual teen." She currently resides in
Brooklyn
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with her husband, Masheka Wood, and their two children.
["About the Artists & Writers," ''African-American Classics, Graphic Classics'' vol. 22 (Eureka Productions, 2011).]
Bibliography
* ''Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela!'' (Calamity Press, 2007)
References
External links
*
Interviews
NPR interview with Mikhaela Reid and Rex Babin''Metro Times'' interview
1980 births
Living people
American editorial cartoonists
Bisexual women artists
Harvard University alumni
American bisexual artists
LGBT people from Massachusetts
LGBT comics creators
Artists from Lowell, Massachusetts
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