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 work 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, Mr. Kelly began freelancing in Washington, DC and was based in New York City for a decade. He 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 illustrations have won awards from American Illustration, Graphis, The Society of Illustrators, 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.

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 their annual Reuben Awards ceremony in New Orleans. He has also been a three-time nominee for that honor. More information on the NCS award 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 Jerelle Kraus.

EDITORIAL CLIENTS INCLUDE:The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, BusinessWeek, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, New York, The Boston Globe, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, The Hartford Courant, Kiplinger's, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Billboard, Forbes, Chronicle Books

CORPORATE CLIENTS INCLUDE: IBM, The Smithsonian Institution, American Express, Scholastic Inc., Nickelodeon, Viacom, American Express, Aetna, Vera Wang, Razorfish, NBC-Universal, Jujamcyn Broadway Theaters, Georgia-Pacific, Nielsen Media Research

ADDITIONAL PORTFOLIO:
http://www.theispot.com/artist/skelly

COMPLETE SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES
"METROPOLITAN DIARY":
http://www.metdiary.blogspot.com

INFORMATION ABOUT SEAN KELLY'S CREATIVITY SEMINAR:
http://www.creativityseminar.blogspot.com

CONTACT:
(203) 615-0118
Sean@SeanKellyStudio.com