#Medar de la Cruz

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Medar de la Cruz has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize in the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary category. The Brooklyn-based illustrator won for the illustrated story “The Diary of a Rikers Island Library Worker,” which appeared in the New Yorker last May. De la Cruz is an artist who also works in New York City jails as a library assistant for the Brooklyn Public Library.

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Phones and cameras aren’t allowed on Rikers, but I’m an illustrator. Sometimes I saw things that I felt compelled to draw from memory later.

I’m always moved by the sense of gratitude and warmth that some people express when we’re able to get them the books that they asked for.

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Issue Nine's Visual Art section is edited by Ximena Alejandra Izquierdo Ugaz, Danielle Wright, and Abby Sun. It includes incredible work by Dylan Glynn, Medar de la Cruz, Kat Geng, Emanuel Xavier, Grace Rosario Perkins, and Daniel Garber.

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We had such an amazing time live on KnowWave at the Printed Matter Art Book Fair! We sat, laughed and chatted about being sweaty, gentrification, colorism across the diaspora, sexual health in poc communities, wack yts selling things at the fair and more with Stephanie Rodriguez, Tsige Tafesse, Medar De la Cruz, Gisela Zuniga, + Kandis Williams, and had a surprise call from la única Jay Boogie and Black Fly Zine's Justine Frost in the most melanin and glow room at the NY Art Book Fair 🌹🌹

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Spend a few minutes this evening with Ximena Alejandra Izquierdo Ugaz's fascinating interview with Medar de la Cruz!

Read “I’m Definitely Not The Bad Guy” here.