Glynis Sweeny is an American illustrator and caricaturist who is known for lampooning political and business figures in newspapers, newsweeklies, and consumer magazines.

Sweeny graduated with a degree in graphic design from Rochester Institute of Technology. She later honed her illustrating skills under the direction of the iconic Alan E. Cober at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

Soon after, Sweeny became a staff designer and illustrator for The Detroit News, working alongside other notable illustrators like Don Asmussen. During this time, Sweeny developed as a caricaturist, and received national recognition; an original illustration of musician Paul Simon is now part of a Library of Congress collection. While at the News, Sweeny began to attract a long roster of clients, including Rolling Stone, GQ and Entertainment Weekly.

In 1995, Sweeny left the paper and moved to New York City to focus on her publishing clients in the area. Her client roster also includes Time magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Village Voice, The New York Times, TV Guide, Comedy Central, The Atlantic, Fortune, the Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe.

Wax-based colored pencil is Sweeny’s original medium of choice using a unique burnishing technique for her illustrations to create color depth. Increasingly her work has become a mixture of pencil and digital including entirely digital based photoshop collage illustrations.

Sweeny has appeared in the Society of Illustrators, RSVP, American Illustration, and Communication Arts juried annuals and has won illustration awards from the Society of Newspaper Design and the Society of Professional Journalists.

Sweeny resides in Nyack. NY.