Metro San Juan’s Jean Michel Fiedler won an Overseas Press Club Award during the press organization’s 40^th annual gala, held at the El San Juan Hotel in Isla Verde on Aug. 29.

Fiedler’s cartoons for the Metro feature “Heaven and Hell at the San Juan Star,” nabbed the Best Cartoon prize, giving Metro its first OPC win. He received the award from famed photographer and teacher Alina Luciano. Fiedler’s work, published in Metro’s December/ January 2009 issue, illustrated former San Juan Star editor John Marino’s piece on the demise of the English-language daily.

Prior to Metro, Fiedler illustrated stories and covers for San Juan Magazine. He has also won numerous art awards in Puerto Rico, stateside and abroad. The artist also taught art at the Liga de Arte, Sacred Heart University and the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in San Juan. He studied art at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA and the Pratt Institute in New York.

–Valerie López