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Meet the Cartoonists

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Artist Bios Page 1

Mark Anderson
www.andertoons.com
Cartoonist Mark Anderson lives in the Chicago area with his wife, their children, two cats, a dog and several dust bunnies. His cartoons have been featured in Reader's Digest, The Wall Street Journal, Good Housekeeping, Forbes, Barron's, Woman's World, Harvard Business Review, The Saturday Evening Post, The American Legion, Funny Times, and many more.

Ian Baker
www.ianbakercartoons.co.uk
Ian Baker is a cartoonist, an illustrator, a magician and an author. Born in the 1970s, he studied graphic design and animation and since then his work has appeared in everything from Private Eye to Reader's Digest, National Lampoon, Nickelodeon Magazine, Cracked magazine, Punch, Penthouse and other publications around the world. His original cartoons feature in many private collections and galleries including the London Cartoon Museum and the Cartoon & Karikatur Museum in Basel, Switzerland. As well as drawing, Ian has written comedy scripts for TV and is heavily involved in the world of magic. He lives in Sheffield, England, with several packs of cards and Katie, his dip pen.

Patrick Byrnes
www.patbyrnes.com
Pat Byrnes is a cartoonist for The New Yorker, Reader’s Digest, The Wall Street Journal, America Magazine, and Harvard Business Review. He has published two collections of his cartoons, What Would Satan Do? and Because I'm the Child Here and I Said So, and has contributed to numerous other collections. Previous careers include voice actor, advertising copywriter and -- no joke -- rocket scientist. Now when he is not cartooning, he writes musicals.

John Caldwell
www.caldwellcartoons.com
John Caldwell's drawings have appeared in many publications, including National Lampoon, Writer's Digest, Playboy, Barron's, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, and Harvard Business Review. He also appears regularly in and is proud to be one of the Usual Gang of Idiots at Mad Magazine. His books include one children's book, several collections of his own cartoons, and a 1991 work titled Fax This Book, which did for the sale of fax machines what Chicken Soup for the Soul did for VCR repair. He lives with his wife, Diane, and dog, Jade, in upstate New York.

Dave Carpenter
www.carptoons.com
Dave Carpenter has been a full-time cartoonist since 1981. His cartoons have appeared in a number of publications, including Harvard Business Review, Barron's, Reader's Digest, The Wall Street Journal, Good Housekeeping, Better Homes & Gardens, Woman's World, First for Women, The Saturday Evening Post and Medical Economics. His cartoons have also appeared in many of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

Oliver Christianson
www.revilocartoons.com
Oliver Christianson's cartoons have been getting laughs for Hallmark since 1986, perhaps because he likes to look at things backward. "Revilo" is "Oliver" backward, a signature he took when he graduated from California State University, Long Beach, and began creating cartoons for magazines. Christianson’s world revolves around finding surprise in ordinary things – and translating the mundane into amusement for many loyal fans. "I work like a courtroom reporter," Christianson says. "I observe the details of life, and then ask 'what if?' I pull a thread and see where it goes. I do cartoons to surprise myself. I do what keeps me entertained."

Clive Collins
www.clivecollinscartoons.com
Clive Collins is the secretary of the British Cartoonists' Association and also life vice president of the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain. His work has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, including People, Playboy, Reader's Digest and others.

Benita Epstein
www.benitaepstein.com
Benita Epstein has five National Cartoonists Society nominations for best magazine cartoonist and greeting card cartoonist. Clients include The New Yorker, Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, Creators Syndicate (newspaper panel), and hundreds of other publications worldwide. She has also produced three cartoon collections.

Joseph Farris
www.josephfarris.com
Joseph Farris has been a contract cartoonist with The New Yorker since 1971. He has done covers for The New Yorker, Barron's, Harvard Magazine, ABA Journal, Indiana Alumni, Industry Week, and many others. For almost twenty years his cartoons were featured in Stern magazine in Germany. He has had two syndicated features, FARRISWHEEL for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate and PHIPPS for United Features Syndicate. He recently completed a memoir, Elm Street, of his teenage years growing up in Danbury, Connecticut.

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	Feggo www.felipegalindo.com Felipe Galindo (Feggo) was born in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He received his BFA in Visual Arts from National University, Mexico City. His work has appeared in national and international publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Newsday, Mad Magazine, Nickelodeon Magazine, Reader's Digest, and many others. He currently resides in New York City.
	Anne Gibbons www.annegibbons.com Cartoons by Anne Gibbons have adorned greeting cards, magazines, books, advertisements, newspapers and, websites across the country. JJI International recently launched Anne’s newest creation, Sophisticated Ladies, a line of mugs, magnets, tote bags, and other gift products. Industry leader Recycled Paper Greetings and several other companies have published the New York-based artist's bestselling greeting cards for over 15 years. The National Cartoonists Society awarded Anne the prestigious Reuben Award for Greeting Cards in 2000.
	Martha Gradisher www.mgradisher.com Martha Gradisher doodled her way out of the small town in Ohio where she was born and went to New York. She became a comic illustrator for Gannett Publications and in addition had a Sunday Editorial cartoon. She went on to illustrate seven children's books and to author and illustrate a feature for Parade Publications. In 1994 she entered the digital world and became in quick succession a game developer and creative director. In 2004, after the Internet bust, she came back to her original love, the gag cartoon. She lives in Nyack, NY, with her husband, Jon, two sons, Max and Harry (in birth order lest it become an issue) and a very enthusiastic Jack Russell terrier named Olive.
	John Grimes www.grimescartoons.com John Grimes continues to carve away at the filet of life, creating cartoons, illustrations, and animation for websites, books, magazines, newspapers, and cards. In 2007 he compiled Fuzzy Logic, an anthology of 150 Grimes cartoons, for a Hewlett-Packard promotion. He also illustrated the bestselling book, This is Not the Life I Asked For, for four very brave women. Other Mensa-level clients (some still in business) include Salon.com, Hitachi, Lightspeed Interactive, Connect Safely.com, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Palm Computing, Renaissance, Stanford business professor Tom Kosnik, Peachpit Press, Reader's Digest, Funny Times, and many others.
	Ralph Hagen www.hagenstoons.com Ralph Hagen has been drawing professionally for over 30 years. He's spent 16 years as an editorial cartoonist for two papers local to his hometown of Stony Plain, Alberta (Canada). Hagen's clients include The Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Kraft Foods, and many others. Hagen is married and has three children. His interests include guitar and hockey.
	Matthew Henry Hall Matthew Henry Hall currently draws, writes, and sings under the Ponderosa Pines of Flagstaff, Arizona.
	Graham Harrop www.grahamharrop.com Graham Harrop makes a living out of being goofy. Ever since he can remember, he has wanted to be a cartoonist. Graham was born in Liverpool, UK, and grew up in Powell River (British Columbia). Over the years, he worked at a number of jobs to support himself -- from mill worker to taxi driver. Meanwhile, he developed his client base to the point where he could realize his dream of full-time cartooning, which is what he has been doing since 1990. Being goofy, satirical, whimsical, probing human nature in his cartoons -- this is what Graham loves to do.
	Timothy Lachowski www.coroflot.com/timlachowski Timothy Lachowski has been a broadcast advertising art director and writer, specializing in humor, for 31 years. He started cartooning two years ago. His work has appeared in Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, The Saturday Evening Post, Funny Times, First for Women, Woman's World, and Cat Fancy.
	Mike Lynch www.heykidscomics.com Mike Lynch is a magazine cartoonist. His clients include Reader's Digest, Playboy, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, TheLadders.com, the New York Daily News and many others. He's the National Cartoonists Society national representative, as well as chair of the NCS Long Island chapter (the "Berndt Toast Gang"). He lives in NYC with his wife and cats. In addition to his website, Mike writes the popular Mike Lynch Cartoons blog on the business of cartooning.

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	Patricia Madigan Patricia Madigan is a regular contributor to Reader's Digest. More detailed bio information on Patrica Madigan coming soon!
	Scott Arthur Masear Scott Arthur Masear is a regular contributor to Reader's Digest. More detailed bio information on Scott Arthur Masear coming soon!
	P. S. Mueller www.psmueller.com P. S. Mueller has been drawing and selling cartoons continuously since he was a teenager in the late 1960s. He is very bald and has been so since he was in his middle twenties. His cartoons have appeared in dozens of alternative and mainstream publications including The New Yorker, Utne Reader, Chicago Reader, Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, Omni, Reader's Digest, Temp Slave, Funny Times, and on and on and on. In recent years Mueller has assumed a second identity as news anchor Doyle Redland and can be heard five days a week on various radio stations throughout the U.S. and Canada as he loudly pronounces the Onion Radio News. You can hear samples at americancomedynetwork.com.
	Dan Reynolds www.reynoldsunwrapped.com Dan began drawing cartoons in December 1989. He draws and eats left-handed. His cartoons are seen by millions of readers across the U.S., Canada and points beyond, all the way down under in Australia. You can find his work in every issue of Reader's Digest (where he is known for his cow, pig and chicken cartoons), on greeting cards everywhere, and in Reynolds Unwrapped book collections. His cartoons have appeared on HBO's The Sopranos, the cover of a National Lampoon cartoon book collection and on greeting cards throughout the United States.
	H. L. Schwadron www.schwadroncartoons.com Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Harley Schwadron is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator for magazines and newspapers, large and small. His cartoons are published in such major media as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Readers Digest, Harvard Business Review, The National Law Journal, Forbes, and others. For l5 years he was a cartoonist for Punch in England. "Cartoons are a great combination of writing and art," he says. "I've especially loved business cartoons, and also enjoy doing topical work for op-ed pages."
	Vahan Shirvanian Vahan Shirvanian is a regular contributor to Reader's DigestVahan Shirvanian grew up in Newark, NJ. He taught fighter pilot gunnery in WWII before enrolling at Seton Hall University, where he majored in English while attempting to sell cartoons at the same time. His first sale was to The Saturday Evening Post in 1946, and he has been a success ever since (he has been named best cartoonist of the year ten times by Highlights for Children and the National Cartoonists Society. Shirvanian enjoys hiking the trails of New Jersey and watching old movies in his free time.
	Steve Smeltzer www.smeltzercartoons.com Growing up, humor was simply a part of everyday life for Steve Smeltzer, whose family encouraged him from a very young age to draw. He recalls spending a lot of time trying to draw Mad Magazine characters and, of course, Charlie Brown and Snoopy. He was also inspired by his dad, a fantastic cartoonist who came very close to syndication success. When he's not drawing, Steve teaches drum lessons at a local music store and plays in a jazz trio. His interests include Jungian psychology, The Simpsons, NBA games, watching taped reruns of the TV show Northern Exposure, and traveling with his wife to small-town caf´.
	Kim Warp www.warpcartoons.com Kim Warp has been a cartoonist for as long as she can remember. A Seattle native, she currently lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with her husband, two teenage daughters, and various pets, all of which frequently appear in her cartoons. In addition to Reader's Digest, you can see Kim’s work in the The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, and cartoon collections such as The Rejection Collection.

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