Ann Telnaes

Ann Telnaes' editorial cartoons are syndicated with Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate/ New York Times Syndicate. Her work has appeared in such prestigious publications as The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Le Monde, Courrier International, The Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The New York Times, and the Austin American Statesman. Telnaes also contributes an exclusive weekly cartoon to Women's eNews, an online news service.

Telnaes' work was shown in a solo exhibition at the Great Hall in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress in 2004. Her first book, "Humor's Edge", was published by Pomegranate Press and the Library of Congress in 2004.

Ann Telnaes attended California Institute of the Arts and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, specializing in character animation. Before beginning her career as an editorial cartoonist, Telnaes worked for several years at Walt Disney Imagineering as a designer. She has also animated and designed for various studios in London, Los Angeles, New York and Taiwan.

Telnaes has won numerous awards for her work, including the National Press Foundation's Berryman Award (2003); the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (2001); the Maggie Award, Planned Parenthood, for Editorial Cartoons (2002); the National Headliner Award for Editorial Cartoons (1997); Best Cartoonist, The Population Institute XVII Global Media Awards (1996); and Best Editorial Cartoonist in the Sixth Annual Environmental Media Awards (1996).

Her television and radio appearances include the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, C-Span, BBC radio, the Editors, and World Affairs Television. Telnaes is a board member of the Cartoonists Rights Network and the National Cartoonists Society Foundation. She is a past vice president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and a member of the American Newswomen's Club.

Ann Telnaes was born in Sweden. She currently resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband, David Lloyd. Visit her website at www.anntelnaes.com.

Mike Keefe

Mike 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 Time, Newsweek, Business Week, US News and World Report, The New York Times; The Washington Post; and in over 200 newspapers across the country.

He won top awards in the Fischetti editorial cartoon competition (1991), the National Headliners Club (1986), and the Society of Professional Journalists (1986). He was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University and is past President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He was a juror for the 1997 and 1998 Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism.

Keefe has numerous animation credits. His "Talking Heads" animated caricatures are a weekly feature of InToon.com. His animated editorial cartoons were syndicated nationally by Newsweek Broadcasting's Cartoon-a-Torial and were a part of dePIXion Studios' Penpoint package. AM, a film short, was a part of the International Animation Festival in Denver. "The Life and Times of Ralph and Louie," produced by dePIXion studios and animated by Keefe, was a bimonthly feature of Launch, a CD-ROM Magazine.

Keefe is the author of Running Awry, McGraw Hill 1979; Keefe-Kebab, The Denver Post Corporation, 1984; and The 10 Speed Commandments, Doubleday, 1987. He was co-creator (with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist Tim Menees) of the nationally-syndicated comic strips Cooper and Iota.

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 harmonica for the bar band, Falling Rock. Keefe has two college-age children and lives with his wife and three cats in Evergreen, Colorado at 8,000 feet above sea level.

See more of Mikešs work on his website at www.intoon.com.

Jim Morin

Jim Morin joined the staff at The Miami Herald in l978 and his work is syndicated internationally by the New York Times/CWS Syndicate.

Jim Morinšs drawings won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in l996. He shared the Pulitzer in l983 with other members of the Miami Herald editorial board, and was a Pulitzer finalist in l977 and l990. He has also won the 2000 John Fischetti Award, the l999 Thomas Nast Award, the National Press Foundation's l996 Berryman Award, the l992 National Cartoonist Society award, and the Overseas Press Club Awards in 1990 and 1979, amongst others.

Morin is the author of four books: Famous Cats, Jim Morin's Field Guide to Birds, a two collections of political cartoons, Line of Fire, and BUSHED! (with Walter C. Clemens). His cartoons and oil paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. His retrospective exhibition at the International Museum of Cartoon Art hung for nine months due to popular demand.

Born in Washington, D.C. and raised outside Boston, Morin started drawing cartoons at age seven. He attended Syracuse University and, fueled by social and political upheavals during the early 1970šs, he began publishing political cartoons in Syracuse University's The Daily Orange.

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