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For a distinguished portfolio of editorial cartoons or other illustrated work (still, animated, or both) characterized by political insight, editorial effectiveness, or public service value, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).

Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams and Walt Hickey of Insider, New York, N.Y.

For using graphic reportage and the comics medium to tell a powerful yet intimate story of the Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs, making the issue accessible to a wider public.

Walt Hickey, Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col and Josh Adams accept the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary from Columbia University President Lee Bollinger. (Eileen Barroso/Columbia University)

Winning Work

December 27, 2021
How I escaped a Chinese internment camp

Biography

Fahmida Azim is an illustrator and storyteller. Her work centers on themes of identity, culture, and autonomy. She and her art have been seen in The New York Times, NPR, Glamour, Scientific American, The Intercept, Vice, and more. Fahmida has illustrated a number of books including her own stereotype-shattering project Muslim Women Are Everything (HarperDesign, 2020). She enjoys drawing real people living extraordinary lives, fictional people living beautifully ordinary lives, and food. Originally from Bangladesh, Fahmida now lives and creates in Seattle, Washington.

Anthony Del Col is the best-selling podcast, comics, TV, and digital writer/producer of KILL SHAKESPEARE, ASSASSIN'S CREED and the controversial graphic novel THE DEATH OF NANCY DREW, amongst others. His 2020 audio drama ASSASSIN’S CREED: GOLD, starring Oscar-nominee Riz Ahmed, was Audible’s top-rated release of the year. His first project with Audible, the found-footage thriller UNHEARD: THE STORY OF ANNA WINSLOW, hit #1 on Audible and broke download records. Author of a series of acclaimed non-fiction comics for Insider.com (including the recent I SURVIVED A CHINESE INTERNMENT CAMP, a first-person exploration of one Muslim Uyghur woman’s imprisonment by the Chinese...

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Josh Adams is an acclaimed, Ringo-nominated comic book artist who has drawn for Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics, Syfy, Random House, and more. Since 2016, he has worked on Insider Comics, a project that merges the deeply-reported, journalistic reporting with striking visual display. He has served as an art director on a number of Insider Comic projects as well.

Walt Hickey is Insider's Senior Editor for Data. He came from FiveThirtyEight where he was chief culture writer. He also writes Numlock News, a daily morning newsletter. He also edits Insider’s comic offerings through Insider Comics, a journalism project devoted to telling true stories using the comic book medium. He graduated from The College of William and Mary with a degree in Applied Mathematics.

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary in 2022:

Ann Telnaes of The Washington Post

Zoe Si, contributor, The New Yorker

The Jury

Scott Kraft (Chair)

Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times

Darrin Bell*

Syndicated Cartoonist, Sacramento, Calif.

Rachel Dry

Sunday Business Editor, The New York Times

Karen Green

Curator, Comics and Cartoons; Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Michael Sloan*

Illustrator, New Haven, Conn.

Winners in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary

2022 Prize Winners

Music

Voiceless Mass, by Raven Chacon

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