A Victory

About John Sherffius (from The Association of Editorial Cartoonists) I was honored with the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for cartoons drawn in 2001. And I won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for my coverage of issues affecting the poor in 2003. I resigned from the Post-Dispatch in December, 2003. It was a tough decision, because I was proud of the forceful work I had done there. But the new editor had a different vision of the role of an editorial cartoonist, and I felt my work was no longer a good fit. I love this profession with a passion, however, and have continued producing five cartoons a week for a handful of clients, including the Kansas City Star, the Ventura County Star, the Illinois Times and the American Prospect's website. Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "A Victory" cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

National Security Team

About R.J. Matson (from a R.J. Matson letter) There are a lot of meanings to the word "Lost" and there is no shame in being placed on a TV show with all of those other distinguished Americans who ran and are still running campaigns for President. We're still in Iraq but it can be said that effort is "lost." A team can still be on the field in a game but that game can be "lost." If John Edwards were still in the race with his strategy of racking up delegates to take to a brokered convention, I would have put him in the "Lost" cartoon, too. Editorial cartoons make judgments. It is my judgment at this time that the Ron Paul campaign is "Lost." I wish him well today. May I be proven wrong. Sincerely, RJ RJ Matson Editorial Cartoonist St. Louis Post-Dispatch Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "National Security Team" cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

GOP First Responders

About Pat Bagley (from The Eagle Online) "No one wields a chainsaw with more compassion than I do," he admits. His roots in the Beehive State run deep. He is a fifth generation Utahn, born in Salt Lake City but raised in southern California. His mother taught school, and his father was mayor of a booming seaide community. Over the past two decades, he has published several books and produced 6,000 cartoons for the editorial pages of The Salt Lake Tribune, many of which have won awards or found their way into publications including Time, The Washington Post and The Guardian of London. Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "GOP First Responders" cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

War on Terror Update

About Mike Keefe (from The Association of Editorial Cartoonists) Keefe, is a former US Marine, college math teacher, and for a short time, (before Frank Shorter's heat), the state masters record holder in the indoor mile. He plays guitar and harp for the rock and blues band, Falling Rock. Keefe has two grown children and lives with his wife in downtown Denver. He has no known allergies. Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "War on Terror Update" cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

The Great Dismal Swamp

About Jack Ohman (watch Jack Draw)

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Cinderella Story

About J.D. Crowe (from an interview on www.wkrg.com)

Twenty years ago there were over two hundred political cartoonists working for newspapers in the United States. Today there are about ninety...less than two per state! One of that rare breed lives and draws right here on the Gulf Coast. He produces five cartoons a week for the Mobile Press Register, and also syndicates cartoons dealing with national issues. In the last year his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today among others. Typical of his work is a cartoon which compares legislators to manatees, the large lethargic animals which inhabit coastal waters in summer. He draws legislator faces on the manatee bodies and says, "These beasts return each year, but there is little evidence of anything they actually do while they're here." Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "Cinderella Story" cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

Trust Me

About John Sherffius (from dailycamera.com) Growing up in Los Angeles, John's favorite subjects were history and art. He began his editorial cartooning career in college at the UCLA Daily Bruin. Today his work runs regularly in the Camera, and is distributed nationally through Creators Syndicate. John has won many awards, including the 2008 Herblock. John spends most of his time drawing, reading and playing with his kids. Started at the Daily Camera: 2005 Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "Trust Me" cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

Shock and Awe

About R.J. Matson (from cartoonweb.com ) R.J. Matson is a political cartoonist and freelance illustrator based in New York City.  He draws one cartoon a week for The New York Observer, two cartoons a week for Roll Call, and one cartoon a month for The Nation. He is a frequent contributor to Mad Magazine, and his illustrations appear in numerous newspapers and periodicals. He has created the cover art for more than a dozen CDs put out by the Capitol Steps comedy troupe and has illustrated several books, including 13th Gen-Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?, The Single Woman's Guide to the Available Men of Washington, and How to Satisfy a Woman Every Time on Five Dollars a Day. Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "Shock and Awe" cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

Obama and Uncle Sam

About Pat Bagley (from www.uvu.edu) Pat Bagley is an award-winning editorial cartoonist from Utah, a state he describes as “that little metal thingy on the buckle of the Bible Belt.” He is the daily cartoonist for The Salt Lake Tribune and is syndicated in over 450 newspapers around the country. Bagley reached a national audience with the popular Curious George parody, Clueless George Goes to War, which critics call, “a little gem of a book that distills the Bush mispresidency down to its essence.” (BuzzFlash.com) Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "Obama and Uncle Sam" cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

Happiness

About Mike Keefe (from Mike's InToon.Com) Keefe’s animations have appeared on broadcast TV, the internet and CD-Rom magazines. He has won top honors in the Fischetti, National Headliners Club, Society of Professional Journalists and Best of the West contests. He was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University and is a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He was a juror for the 1997 and 1998 Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism. Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "Happiness" cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

Bread Line 1932 - 2008

About Jack Ohman (from Tribune Media Services) Ohman's editorial cartoons display a stylish perception that make them, as People magazine suggests, "probably the most uncompromising, the most wicked and the most pointedly funny" on today's op-ed pages. His work appears regularly in the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times and scores of other major newspapers, as well as in Newsweek, National Review and other magazines. He also contributed drawings to "ABC News Nightline" from 1984 to 1986. Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "Bread Line 1932 - 2008" cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

Profiteers

About J.D. Crowe (from The Association of Editorial Cartoonists) J.D. Crowe is the staff cartoonist for the Mobile Register (Mobile, Alabama.) He aggressively works local and state issues (Lord knows there's lots of work to be done in Lower Alabama,) feeling it his duty to weed out numbskull politicians on the homefront before they can grow in the national spotlight. Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "Profiteers" cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

This Is Your Nest Egg

About John Sherffius (from The Association of Editorial Cartoonists) I can't say I always knew I wanted to work as an editorial cartoonist. But I've loved art ever since I won a first-grade contest for my crayon portrait of a Thanksgiving turkey. I've been drawn to politics for just about as long: I remember, as 12-year-old, refusing to join my family at the dinner table so I could sit in front of the TV set, watching Richard Nixon's resignation speech. In college at the University of California-Los Angeles, I picked up a copy of the school newspaper, the Daily Bruin, and spotted a political cartoon on the editorial page. My career goal clicked. I knew that was what I wanted to do. Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "This Is Your Nest Egg" cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

Yes We Did

About R.J. Matson (from rjmatson.com) R.J. Matson is the editorial cartoonist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The New York Observer and Roll Call. His cartoons and illustrations have appeared in many other publication, including The New Yorker, The Nation, MAD Magazine, City Limits, The Daily News, The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Capital Style, and Rolling Stone. Born in Chicago in 1963 , Robert John Matson was raised in Brussels, Belgium and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1985 and won a national Scholastic Press Association Award for cartoons he contributed to the Columbia Daily Spectator. R.J was also a visiting student at Pembroke College, Oxford University for one year. Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "Yes We Did" cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

Bush Legacy

About Pat Bagley (from the Salt Lake Tribune Blog) Pat Bagley is an award-winning cartoonist whose work has been featured in Time, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian of London. His syndicated cartoons appear in newspapers around the country. Bagley was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, but grew up in Oceanside, Calif., where his father was mayor. Politics was an early and abiding interest. As part of a high school civics class, Bagley participated in a PBS interview of Ronald Reagan. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1978 and was hired by The Salt Lake Tribune the following year. Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "Bush Legacy" cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

Community Organizers

About Mike Keefe (from Mike's InToon.Com)By throwing himself into auto assembly line work, the United States Marines and graduate school in mathematics, Mike Keefe desperately hoped to suppress his secret nature. But then, in an unguarded moment during Watergate, he found himself drawn to Richard Nixon’s nose. He’s been out of the closet and cartooning ever since. Keefe has been the editorial cartoonist for The Denver Post since 1975. Throughout the nineties he was a weekly contributor to USA Today and a regular on America Online. Nationally syndicated, his cartoons have appeared in Europe, Asia and in most major U.S. news magazines and hundreds of newspapers across the country.

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The Seat of Power...

About Jack Ohman (from Jack's Blog) Jack's editorial cartoons appear in over 300 newspapers in the United States and overseas by Tribune Media Services. At 19, while still a college sophomore at the Minnesota Daily, he was the youngest cartoonist ever to be syndicated. He enters his 28th year of syndication this year, and his cartoons have appeared in The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Boston Globe since the Carter presidency. He has won numerous awards, such as the Overseas Press Club Award for best cartoon on foreign affairs, and the National Headliners Award. He won the Sigma Delta Chi Award as the best college cartoonist in the United States. Jack has been the editorial cartoonist for The Oregonian since 1983, and he previously worked at The Columbus Dispatch and the Detroit Free Press. Oregonian reader comments on "The Seat of Power..." cartoon. Visit the arttalksback.com Amazon webstore to get your own free standing canvas wrapped print of the "The Seat of Power..." cartoon. Three sizes are available for purchase (5", 7.75" and 15")

Obama #44 - J.D. Crowe's "Famous Cartoon"

About J.D. Crowe (from J.D. Crowe's Blog)

J.D. Crowe draws five editorial cartoons a week for the Mobile Press-Register. He arrived on the Gulf Coast in 2000, just in time to cover the "hanging chad" presidential election. He came to Alabama from San Diego, California, where he was a freelance artist and occasional travel writer for the Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Examiner, San Diego Reader, and several other publications. He has also worked on staff as the editorial cartoonist for daily newspapers in San Diego and Fort Worth, Texas.

Click here to read J.D. Crowe's blog complete entry about one of his most famous cartoons and where it is now on display.

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