Nick Galifianakis (cartoonist)

Nick Galifianakis is an American cartoonist and artist. Since 1997, he has drawn the cartoons for the nationally syndicated advice column Carolyn Hax, formerly, Tell Me About It – authored by ex-wife, writer and columnist for the Washington Post, Carolyn Hax.

Galifianakis illustrated the book Tell Me About It: Lying, Sulking, Getting Fat ... and 56 Other Things NOT to Do While Looking for Love, authored by Hax in 2001. He has illustrated a number of books by writer and novelist Andrew Postman – and was nominated by the National Cartoonists Society for the 2006 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in the Newspaper Illustration category. In 2012 Galifianakis won the Reuben Award for Advertising Illustration. In 2010, he published the book If You Loved Me, You'd Think This Was Cute: Uncomfortably True Cartoons About You. In 2014 he co-authored The Art of Richard Thompson with David Apatoff and Bill Watterson

Though he has no formal art education, his father, Peter Galifianakis, is an accomplished sculptor and painter.

Born in Durham, North Carolina, Galifianakis grew up in Falls Church, Virginia, and attended the University of North Carolina and American University in Washington, DC.

His career as a cartoonist followed earlier work as an editorial cartoonist and illustrator for USA Today and US News & World Report, and as a freelance editorial cartoonist and illustrator with published illustrations in a variety of nationally distributed periodicals.

Galifianakis is a first cousin of comedian Zach Galifianakis and nephew of former U. S. Representative Nick Galifianakis. He and Hax married in 1994. Divorced in 2002, they continue to collaborate on the column.

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