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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

A Women With Great Talent


Benita Epstein
Before becoming a cartoonist, Benita Epstein earned a B.S. and an M.S. in Entomology from the University of California, Davis, then, as Staff Research Associate at several universities studied yellow-fever mosquitoes, photosynthesis, lung surfactant and autism. She also assisted her husband in ecological field research on islands around the world.

Her newspaper panel, DRAWING A CROWD, was nationally syndicated from January 2002 to June 2003. The National Cartoonists Society nominated her four times for Best Gag (Magazine) Cartoonist of the Year and twice for Best Greeting Card Cartoonist of the Year.

Epstein’s cartoons have been published in hundreds of magazines including The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review and American Scientist. Her specialties are cartoons on medicine and science for the professional, travel industry cartoons, education cartoons for teachers and professors, Jewish lifestyle, holiday cartoons, business cartoons, relationship cartoons, women's cartoons and greeting cards.

Click here to see her work.

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