Medar de la Cruz

Medar de la Cruz is a Dominican-American cartoonist and illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of ArtCenter College of Design, he has contributed to The New York Times and The New Yorker.

In 2024, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting for “The Diary of a Rikers Island Library Worker,” a striking black-and-white comic capturing his experiences delivering books to incarcerated people. Currently Medar volunteers with the Brooklyn Public Library’s jail-and-prison services and teaches zine-making and visual storytelling across NYC.
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For more information visit Medar's website here.

Medar will be teaching Landscape Painting, Illustrative Reporting, and Pen & Ink at High School Camp.