Mitra Farmand is an American

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

whose work has appeared in ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'', '' The Nib'', and '' Funny Times''. She is from Brookline, Massachusetts.

Education

Farmand has a degree in history from

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado syst ...

. In 2013, Farmand graduated from Center for Cartoon Studies in

White River Junction, Vermont White River Junction is an unincorporated village and census-designated place (CDP) in the New England town, town of Hartford, Vermont, Hartford in Windsor County, Vermont, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,528 at the 2 ...

, a two-year institution.

Career

Farmand was about 40 years old and "working at a bank on financial data" when she went back to school to study comics at the Center for Cartoon Studies. On June 22, 2015, Farmand's cartoon career began when she published her first cartoon of wolves in sheep's clothing in ''

''.

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Image of Several Wolves in Sheep's Clothing Converge cartoon
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