Meet the Cartoonists

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I work like a courtroom reporter ... 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.

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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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