Meet the Cartoonists
Andrew Toos
'Andrew Toos' is the cartoon pen name of Andrew Grossman. Forced to find alternative employment after a series of unilateral job breakups, he stumbled upon visual humor. His cartoons have appeared in Reader's Digest, Saturday Evening Post, National Enquirer, The Washington Post, Barron's, Stern, The Chicago Tribune and hundreds of other magazines and newspapers. His work has been anthologized in numerous cartoons collections, such as 'Lawyers Lawyers Lawyers', 'Cats Cats Cats' and 'Modern Employment'. His cartoons appear in textbooks, trade paperbacks and one-of-a-kind books published by Cambridge University Press, Simon & Schuster, Warner Books, Contemporary Publishing, Baird Smith Books and many others. Through companies such as Phoenix Licensing and NobleWorks, his cartoons have also been a hit on greeting cards. His business cartoons are consistently rated the most popular in surveys of speakers, authors and presenters.
Brenda Brown
Brenda Brown is a cartoonist and illustrator using various forms of expression including realistic and cartoon art in digital and traditional media. She has illustrated the nationwide bestselling series: The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbooks. Other cartoon clients include: WebMD, Oxford University Press, Woman's World, Federal Lawyer, ESPN, Reader's Digest, National Review, Personal Selling Power, Middlebury Magazine and numerous others
Dan Reynolds
Dan's work is seen by millions of people in every city in
the United States via greeting cards for American
Greetings, Papyrus, Nobleworks, and other companies. He is the
most frequent cartoon contributor to Reader's Digest, and also
regularly appears in Esquire, Christianity Today, Saturday Evening
Post, Catholic Digest, and many other titles.
His cartoons have been seen on various television shows,
including "The Sopranos" and have been highlighted on the Science
Channel.
Dandy
"Dandy" is the pen name of the cartoonist, David Williams. His cartoons have been published in the leading periodicals in the United States over a 25 year period, and are popular as greeting card designs.
Jean Sorensen
As if being a CPA wasn't enough of a laugh riot, Jean began entering humor contests, where she was introduced to gag writing. Eventually she began drawing her own cartoons and was hooked. She specializes in the stuff of everyday life/relationships because she's inescapably ordinary. Jean's cartoons have been published in numerous national magazines, including Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, Lutheran, and Funny Times. Her work also appears in greeting cards (Oatmeal Studios) and books ("Chicken Soup for the Soul," "Laughing with Lutherans"). When not drawing, she writes a humor column for a local newspaper. Jean and her husband have three children.
Jerry King
Jerry's work is everywhere that cartoons go-greeting cards, magazines, websites, books-and some places where they don't usually go, such as casinos. Clients include Disney, American Greetings and the US Golf Association. His greeting cards are published through Marcel Schurman, Nobleworks and Comstock. Jerry is also the author and illustrator of seven cartoon books and has also illustrated ten children's books. He lives in Ohio with his wife, two children and two dogs.
Jim Whiting
Jim Whiting's career in cartooning began in Watkins Glen, NY. From the acceptance of his first cartoon in the magazine, Ladies Home Journal, he has been a popular cartoonist in magazines such as Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, LOOK Magazine and more than 75 other publications. His work has also been used in numerous advertising campaigns.
John Morris
John Morris was born in Rhos in Wales and spent the early part of his working life on the Birmingham factory floors of car plants or in their offices. At the same time John began to draw cartoons, and soon was earning more than his full-time employment, so he took the plunge and became a professional cartoonist.
He eventually became the business cartoonist on a morning newspaper and produced around 12+ business cartoons a week as well as drawing family cartoons, on a syndicated basis, for many other newspapers in the UK and abroad. John draws in total 40 cartoons a week and he says his ideas come by 'a sort of controlled daydreaming'.
Jonny Hawkins
Jonny Hawkins has been cartooning professionally since 1986. His work has appeared in over 600 publications and in hundreds of books, greeting cards and other products. He annually creates the Medical Cartoon-A-Day and Fishing Cartoon-A-Day calendars and has a Dog Cartoon-A-Day, Cat Cartoon-A-Day and Teachers Cartoon-A-Day calendars coming out for 2011. Among his own books are the recently released The Awesome Book of Dog Humor and The Awesome Book of Cat Humor and A Joke A Day Keeps the Doctor Away.
Karsten Schley
Karsten Schley is noted for his comic strips, greeting cards and editorial cartoons on business and stock market topics. He lives in Hamburg, Germany with his wife and two daughters.
Mark Lynch
Mark Lynch is the recipient of over 20 Australian and international cartooning awards, including twice winner of the National Cartoon of the year and a Stanley Award for best single gag artist of the year.
Matt Hinrichs
Matt Hinrichs is an illustrator, designer, blogger, collector and vintage pop culture enthusiast. He shares his Phoenix, AZ homestead with one spouse, one cat (Eero), and one dog (Aalto). In addition to his usual duties, he has launched LitKids, an online store for his unique screen prints depicting classic children's book characters.
Mike Shapiro
Following animation and cartoon studies at the Kubert School in New York, Shapiro began selling cartoons to magazines and advertising agencies. After over 20 years in the business Shapiro's cartoons have been published in wide range of publications including, Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Reader's Digest, and The National Law Journal. His cartoons have also been reprinted in countless books and Humor collections.
He has sold many originals to private collectors and his work has appeared in numerous museum and gallery shows. His work is featured as part of a permanent collection at The Harvard Business School's Baker Library. Mike lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Amy, and their two children, Jacob and Samantha.
Mike Shiell
Mike Shiell has been a cartoonist, animator and animation director for 20 years. He recently wrapped up directing the first season of the new 3D animated preschool show, "Guess with Jess" which began airing in early 2010 and was recently nominated for the 2010 Gemini in the category of Best Animated Program or Series and for the Best TV series for Pre-school at the Cartoons on the Bay/Pulcinella Awards.
He was the Illustrator of the book "Chill" which was released in the spring of 2009. From 2003-2007 he was the director of the Emmy and Gemini award winning show the "Backyardigans". He has also created, directed and animated a number of short animated films. One of which was recently featured at the 2010 Annecy awards.
Oliver Weiss
Oliver Weiss is an award-winning illustrator and cartoonist. His clients include The Christian Science Monitor, DER SPIEGEL, DIE ZEIT, The Writer, Random House, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich Oktoberfest, Axel Springer, Prospect, Deutsche Bank, Rowohlt, and CBS.
Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor lives in a rural part of the East Midlands of England. He has been contributing to magazines and newspapers for over twenty years.
Reading is his main passion aside from cartooning. He studies the historical plays of Shakespeare, and writes on Medieval History and Modern Political History.
Peter Thulke
After several changes of profession, from messenger to taxi driver to whatever works, Peter Thulke became a professional cartoonist. His cartoons appear in scores of newspapers and in magazines such as Psychology Today. Thulke lives and works in Berlin.
Rex May
"Baloo," AKA Rex F. May, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1946. He remained just a fan of the humorous arts till 1973, when he started writing for the late, great National Lampoon. Soon after that, he turned his hand to gagwriting for cartoonists and became a contributor of ideas to several freelance cartoonists and a number of syndicated comic strips. From there, it was a small step to doing his own drawing, and his cartoons have been printed all over the world, from Good Housekeeping to Easyriders. Baloo lives with his wife in Colorado. His three kids live all over the place.
Ron Coleman
Ron Coleman sold his first magazine cartoon while in the eighth grade. He has published in hundreds of publications from small magazines to magazines as large as The Saturday Evening Post. His cartoons have served as illustrations in books like Chicken Soup for the Soul, and appear on products such as t-shirts, mugs, greeting cards.
Ron Morgan
Ron Morgan is a cartoonist, children's book illustrator and editorial cartoonist who makes his home with his wife Betty in the the Smoky Mountains.
For more than 30 years his cartoons have appeared in a wide range of magazines and newspapers in America, Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries. In addition to being a cartoonist, Morgan was a reporter and editor for a weekly newspaper in the Tennessee area known as the Cumberland Gap for 25 years.
Shannon Burns
Mostly self-taught, Shannon works as a cartoonist and gagwriter, and remembers copying drawings off of detergent boxes at the age of 3. He has also designed logos, created crossword puzzles, and has a couple of diplomas he hopes to never have to use. He knows a few too many words and his Scrabble ranking has been as high as 150th in North America.
His cartoons have appeared in publications such as Reader's Digest, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and many others. His illustration clients include Freightliner and Cisco. He has been a member of the National Cartoonists Society since 1999 and lives with his wife and two daughters near Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Stephanie O'Shaughnessy
Shephanie O'Shaughnessy relishes in divining humor from the politics of relationships. In between cartoons she designs toys, promotions, and animation for the nation's foremost entertainment companies including Disney, Pixar, Burger King, Sony, and Warner Bros.
