“Just be ready to look at other doors. I had a lot of doors open to me that I never thought about when I was a student, and I took them. It worked out really well.”
My road in life has been direct. Had always enjoyed art, and specifically the act of drawing. Was going to Arizona State University, studying graphic design, but felt I was "floundering," didn't feel motivated. Everyone around me was majoring in business, but I wanted to study something that was truly my passion. Decided I needed to go to art school if she wanted to really apply myself and get serious about my goals. Was animating for Disney, started feeling politically motivated by the Tiananmen Square protests, the Anita Hill hearings. Was inspired to draw a series of political cartoons; sent them to newspapers across the country. Liked the medium of editorial cartoons because I had always been very opinionated, saw that I could express opinions through art. Won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 2001; only the second female cartoonist to do so.
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