Franziska Becker (born 10 July 1949) is a German cartoonist.
Franziska Becker was born in Mannheim in 1949. After finishing secondary school there, she professionally trained as a technical medical assistant. Between 1972 and 1976 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Among others she was taught by Markus Lüpertz.
In 1973 she became involved in the feminist movement in Heidelberg, where she also met Alice Schwarzer, the editor-in-chief of the feminist magazine EMMA. Becker's first published cartoon appeared in the first issue of this magazine. Since then Becker's cartoons, caricatures and illustrations have appeared in numerous other German magazines and journals. Further, she also has published twenty books.
In 1988 Becker was awarded the Max and Moritz Prize for best comic artist. In 2010, a solo exhibition dedicated to her was shown at the Caricatura Museum Frankfurt, comprising around 300 objects.[1] In 2019 she was honoured with the Hedwig Dohm Award by the German Union of Women Journalists. Subsequently, some of her cartoons showing Muslim women in headscarves and burqas were criticized as racist stereotypes by German journalists.[2]