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OCAD U congratulates alum Barry Blitt on winning a Pulitzer

Barry Blitt

This week, OCAD U alum Barry Blitt won a Pulitzer prize in the editorial-cartooning category for work that included a variety of New Yorker magazine covers and several cartoons published exclusively online. The Pulitzer organization praised his work, “that skewers the personalities and policies emanating from the Trump White House with deceptively sweet watercolor style and seemingly gentle caricatures.”

Born in Montreal and educated at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University), Blitt is one of America’s most notable illustrators and pre-eminent satirists, best-known for capturing the larger-than-life absurdities of Washington and world politics.  

Blitt is most famously associated with his contributions to The New Yorker, which, since 1992, have included innumerable illustrations and more than a hundred covers. His witty and insightful work for Vanity Fair, Time, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly and countless other publications have received worldwide attention and accolades.  

In addition to his magazine work, Blitt created a postage stamp for Canada Post in 1994, an animated sequence for an episode of Saturday Night Live in 1996 and has illustrated several children’s books. 

In 2019, OCAD U presented Barry Blitt with an honorary degree.