About Suzy
About Suzy
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I am an author/illustrator and a New Yorker cartoonist (not cartoonsist, so far they’ve taken one.) I began my illustratious career as an award-winning advertising copywriter, then founded The Widget Factory, a greeting card company. My first book was the internationally bestselling All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat, now in the Double-Platinum edition All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat (And Then Some). I have since written and illustrated nine other books for kids and grown ups, including the graphic medicine memoirs I Had Brain Surgery, What’s Your Excuse? and One Good Egg. I’ve also ghostwritten a couple of books.
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Speaking of apparitions, Yankee magazine named me an “Angel Among Us” for my community service initiatives, including the Ride For AIDS Resources (Ride FAR, the country’s first HIV/AIDS bike-a-thon), which raised over $1 million for HIV/AIDS service organizations.
I have had the good fortune and honor of being a White House Fellow, Radcliffe Fellow, and a perennial finalist in the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.
I was also the founding Arts teacher at the Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, MA where my daughter is now a student. We live with our well-meaning dogs in central Massachusetts.
Fun Facts:
I never studied art. I studied International Relations and Economics at Brown University. And I use it every day, dammit.
I went to Brown when John F. Kennedy, Jr. was there. Caroline Kennedy registered in the name of Suzy Becker at a Manhattan hospital to give birth to Jack in 1993.
I ghostwrote a James Beard award-winning cookbook. Can’t tell you which. Boo!
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I’ve had jobs that make cartooning seem normal, like operating a line of machines at a synthetic mohair factory and folding submarine plans.
I totally believe in house numerology. I grew up in a #137, loved living in a #11 for a couple years and I’m raising my daughter in a #299.