Lee Judge was born in Roseville, California, May 3, 1953. He began drawing political cartoons for the Sacramento Union in 1976, joined the San Diego Union as their political cartoonist in 1979, and was hired by the Kansas City Star in 1981.

His political cartoons have appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Boston Globe, Playboy, Washington Monthly and National Review.

His work has also been featured on Good Morning America, The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, and C-SPAN.

He has been a guest lecturer at numerous schools and colleges including The University of Missouri, The University of Kansas, and The John F. Kennedy School of Politics at Harvard.

His work has been honored with over a dozen awards including the first Fischetti Award given by Columbia College in Chicago.

He has sold thousands of original cartoons donating the money to Project Warmth, a Kansas City charity.

From 1989 to 1990 he served as President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

 

Bill Whitehead's career in cartooning started in the fifth grade when he would copy drawning from comic strips, the New Yorker magazine, and editorial cartoons. After a while, he developed his own style, focusing primarily on the drawing. He soon realized his characters would need something to do and say, so he gave them their own odd little world to live in. Soon everyone around him bacome fair game. By college, Bill was cartooning for the school paper. Later, he created posters for book and record stores and freelanced for the Saturday Evening Post, Advertising Age, the Boston Phoenix, Wall Street Journal and King Features. In the 80's, he syndicated "Sidelines," a sports panel cartoon.

Bill was a winner of a cartoon contest in the Saturday Evening Post and for a couple of years was named Best Editorial Cartoonist for weeklies in the state of Kansas by the Kansas Press Association.

For 20 years Bill has written humor cards for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, winning several citations for best-selling cards in his category. He has also done the weekly editorial cartoon for the Kansas City Business Journal from 1987 to 2007, which have appeared in the Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year by Pelican Publishing for each of the past 11 years. His work is also included in the Cartoon Reasearch Library at Ohio State University.

Luckily for Bill, his wife has steadfastly supported his cartooning dreams of glory 100 percent while raising three children.

When not drawing, you can usually find Bill playing guitar or piano with his rhythm and blues band.

 

 

Jeff Keane was born in 1958. Two years later, his father Bil Keane started chasing him around the house begging him to do something funny. So began his career as a cartoon model for "The Family Circus." As the inspiration for the Jeffy character, Keane now works alongside his father creating the comic, which appears daily in nearly 1500 newspapers worldwide, making it the most widely syndicated panel in America today.

Raised in Arizona, Keane moved to California to attend the University of Southern California where in 1980 he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drama. After graduation, in an attempt to have a freer schedule for auditions, etc., he returned to his cartoon roots and began to assist his father. Jeff started out just answering mail and compiling books, but now his duties consist of all aspects of creating the daily cartoon (writing, penciling, inking, coloring). He still seeks out his father's invaluable guidance and advice, which is a key to keeping the feature firmly as a favorite for readers of all ages.

In 2007 Keane was elected President of the National Cartoonist Society, recognized as the premier cartoonist's organization in the world, and was reelected in 2009, becoming only the fourth two-term president in NCS history. Along with other members of the NCS and the helping hand of the USO, Jeff has made numerous visits to military bases and hospitals around the world, including both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Jeff and his wife Melinda live in California where they created three cartoon characters of their own: Spencer, Matilda and Olivia. Keane now chases his kids around begging them to do something funny, proving that "The Family Circus" really does keep going around in circles.

 

Glenn McCoy has long been lauded by his peers for his talent and versatility as a cartoonist. He has the distiction of being honored with 10 different awards from The National Cartoonists Society (NSC), in the fields of editorial cartooning as well as newspaper strips, gags, and greeting cards.

His editorial cartoons have been reprinted in The New York Times, USA Today, and Newsweek, and appear frequently on CNN. They also have been collected in two books, "Pot Shots" and "Pot Shots 2," both dealing with Bill Clinton's years in office.

Glenn was born in St. Louis and began drawing at age 4 under he tutelage of both his grandfather and his older brother, Gary. Weaned on "Peanuts" paperbacks, he acquired an early interest in cartooning and pursued the interest as the cartoonist for his grad school, high school and college newspapers. He graduated in 1988 from Southern Illinois University with a bachelor' degree in fine arts and graphic design.

After receiving his degree, Glenn landed a job as deitorial cartoonist for the Belleville (Ill.) News Democrat. In 1990, he won a national talent search called "Create the Comics of the '90s." Soon after, he began doing gag cartoons for some of the top magazines around the country.

In 1993, his comic strip, "The Duplex," was launched by Universal Uclick, and in 1999 Universal began syndicating his editorial cartoons. Two book collections of "The Duplex" cartoons have been published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. Not having enough to do, Glenn teamed up with brother Gary in 2005 to create "The Flying McCoys," a comic panel also syndicated by Universal.

In addition to his editorial cartoons, comic strips and magazine cartoons, Glenn has designed and written for several animation studios including Dreamworks, Universal, Film Roman and Disney. He has written and/or illustrated several children's books.

Glenn and his wife, Laura, live in Belleville with their daughter, Molly, and son, Jack.

updated9/7/2011