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")

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")

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")

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")