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October Surprise Political Cartoonista Wednesday

Jen Sorensen’s Slowpoke Comics

Jen Sorensen’s comics and illustrations have appeared in the Village Voice, LA Times, Daily Kos, The Progressive, NPR.org, Ms. Magazine, The American Prospect, MAD Magazine, Nickelodeon Magazine, Bitch Magazine, The Oregonian, the Dallas Observer, the Women’s Review of Books, and dozens of altweeklies around the country.

Jen’s weekly strip started in 1998, and has since won seven awards from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, including First Place in 2012. She was also named the 2012 Herblock Prize Finalist, an award endowed by the legendary Washington Post cartoonist Herb Block. In 2010 she received an Aronson Journalism Award from Hunter College in NYC, and in 2000 she won a Xeric grant to publish her first collection of strips.

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