Background
Edward Murawinski was born on November 3, 1951 in Jersey City, New Jersey to Walter A. Murawinski, a supervisor with the United States. Postal Service, and his wife, Anna.
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Edward Murawinski was born on November 3, 1951 in Jersey City, New Jersey to Walter A. Murawinski, a supervisor with the United States. Postal Service, and his wife, Anna.
He attended Manhattan"s School of Visual Arts and has been employed by the Daily News since he was seventeen.
Murawinski grew up in North Bergen, constantly drawing and doodling from an early age, explaining, "We didn"t have art classes when I went to Saint Joseph of the Palisades. So I spent a lot of time just doodling on the back of notebooks and what have you." After graduating from high school in 1969, Murawinski attended the School for Visual Arts in Manhattan. Around the same time, a neighborhood friend told him that the New York Daily News was looking for copy boys.
The 17-year-old Murawinski got one of those positions, running copy, fetching coffee, and doing other errands for different departments.
Until September 2015, Murawinski was a cartoonist primarily for the sports department, but also illustrated certain political events such as the New York Mayoral Election. Many of the newspaper"s sport section pages were laid out by Murawinski.
He continues to do freelance work for the paper, such as for the 2015 World Series. Murawinski currently does freelance work under the name Spilled Ink Studios and Sluice Box Media.
He was formerly employed by the New York Daily News in New York City as an artist and is currently a member of the National Cartoonist Society.
