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SEAN KELLY was first published at age 2 when his face filled the cover of The New York Daily News, as a curious spectator at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. He began earning money with his drawings at age 10, winning a national contest sponsored by Kellogg's which awarded him five dollars per week for a year. Today, as a professional, his income has grown.

Mr. Kelly graduated from Brown University and studied at Rhode Island School of Design and in London. While in college, he and his editorial cartoons were profiled in numerous national publications from The Chronicle of Higher Education to USA Today, and he was the first cartoonist to win the Rolling Stone College Journalism Award. As a sophomore, he had his first drawing published in The New York Times.

After working on staff at The Miami Herald — where each week his political illustrations filled the cover of the "Viewpoint" opinion section — Mr. Kelly then began freelancing in Washington, DC. He was based in New York City for a decade and currently lives in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Mr. Kelly is a frequent contributor to The New York Times where his visual commentaries appear on the Op-Ed Page. His political drawings also are published on the editorial pages and in the opinion sections of The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. Mr. Kelly's illustrations have won awards from The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Graphis, Communication Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, Print's Regional Design Annual, The Los Angeles Society of Illustrators and The Society for News Design, which gave him a Portfolio Award.

His work has been exhibited by The Museum of Cartooning and Comic Art, The Society of Illustrators, Parsons School of Design and New York's Town Hall Theater, and has been featured on The Huffington Post and the CBS News program Face The Nation.

From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Kelly's humorous images of life in New York City ran each week in The New York Times's popular column "Metropolitan Diary", a series for which he won numerous awards.

In 2007, he first presented his Creativity Seminar which teaches journalists, corporate executives and students how to use visual thinking to develop ideas and solve problems.

Sean Kelly was named Best Newspaper Illustrator 2007 by the National Cartoonists Society at its annual Reuben Awards ceremony. He was also nominated for the award in 2006, 2009 and 2011. More information on his NCS award is here.

Mr. Kelly was honored to be included in the 2009 book All The Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page by the esteemed art director Jerelle Kraus.

In addition, Mr. Kelly has been a featured speaker on creativity in journalism at conferences and conventions of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and the College Media Advisors, and he has been a judge of the Gold Circle journalism awards at CSPA.

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"METROPOLITAN DIARY":
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