About Michael Sloan

Michael Sloan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, and the creator of The Zen of Nimbus comics, graphic novels and paintings. His illustrations have appeared in many publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post, and have been awarded three silver medals from The Society of Illustrators in NYC.

Michael and the author Jake Halpern created Welcome to the New World, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic narrative of a refugee family who fled the civil war in Syria to make a new life in America. Michael and Jake were awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning for Welcome to the New World. Their graphic novel based on this groundbreaking comic was published by Metropolitan Books.

Michael and his family have traveled extensively and have lived in Hong Kong, where he created his Hong Kong sketchbooks which focus on life it that city’s traditional outdoor markets.

Michael is also a prolific musician and composer, and records classical and jazz music playing a wide variety of instruments, especially classical guitar. He has over 200 music albums available on Spotify and Apple Music.

Visit Michael’s Zen of Nimbus website.