Ruben Bolling

Ruben Bolling is the author of Tom the Dancing Bug, which won the Academy Award for Best Anything Ever. Bolling became a cartoonist because he believes that drawing comics is the most effective way to change the world.

Matt Bors

Matt's weekly strip, Idiot Box, runs in the Cleveland Free Times, Seven Days, Buffalo Beast, Free Press, and Funny Times. He's also done comics for the ACLU, The Nation, Seattle Stranger, and Free Inquiry. He does a lot of illustration for papers around the country to subsidize his organic facial hair farm in Oregon.

Barry Deutsch

Barry Deutsch lives in Portland, Oregon, in a bright blue house filled with housemates, children, and cats. He began drawing political cartoons at Portland State University in the year 2000, because the student newspaper wouldn't publish "non-political" cartoons. Barry's political cartoons have won a few awards (including the Charles M. Schulz award for college cartooning - woot!), and have appeared in dozens of publications and several different languages. Barry's latest political cartoons appear in every issue of Dollars & Sense magazine.

Barry also creates "Hereville," an online comic book about the magical adventures of an 11 year old girl, and the very religious Jewish community she lives in.

Keith Knight Jr.

Keith Knight is an award-winning San Francisco based cartoonist and rapper. His two weekly comic strips, "the K Chronicles" and "(th)ink," can be found in over thirty-five alternative, ethnic, political and college newspapers across the U.S. His latest book, the "Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts," is a primer for anyone interested in using art for social change. A regular contributor to Mad Magazine and ESPN the Magazine, Knight is also the narrator for the Bay Area artist documentary T.V. show, Spark.

His newest collection of (th)ink comics, "Are We Feeling Safer Yet?" is due in bookstores in Jan. 2007, but is available NOW at kchronicles.com

Brian McFadden

Brian's weekly comic strip, Big Fat Whale, runs in the Boston Phoenix, Portland Phoenix, Cleveland Free Times, and Chico Beat. He's also a member of The Good Students, a Boston based sketch comedy troupe.

Stephanie McMillan

Stephanie McMillan's award-winning "Minimum Security" has been published in dozens of publications including Z Magazine, Monday Magazine (Canada), Clamor, Megh Barta (Bangladesh), Asheville Global Report, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Casseurs de Pub (France), Boston's Weekly Dig, and Anchorage Press.

A collection of her cartoons, "Attitude Presents Minimum Security" was published in 2005, edited by Ted Rall. Her work is also included in "Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists" (2002), as well as in various textbooks and several books in the Opposing Viewpoints series by Gale Publishing Group. Her cartoons have been included in exhibits at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (New York), the San Francisco Comic Art Museum, the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), and the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, DC), among other venues. Minimum Security is syndicated by United Media and appears five times per week at comics.com. Coming January 2008: "As the World Burns," a graphic novel with writer Derrick Jensen, 225 pages, Seven Stories Press.

Kevin Moore

Kevin Moore is a cartoonist and a librarian living in Portland, Oregon. He is responsible for the patriotic, god-fearing humor behind In Contempt, currently hosted at Webcomics Nation. And for the light-hearted adventures of Wanderlost, formerly known as Sheldon the Pig. He believes passionately in intellectual freedom and free speech. If he didn't, he would turn himself over to Homeland Security for undisclosed detention and enhanced interrogation.

Stephen Notley

Stephen Notley's Bob the Angry Flower cartoon has appeared in a slender handful of publications such as Attitude 2, Vue Weekly, Terminal City, Funny Times, The Newspaper and the Buffalo Beast. Created in Edmonton, Alberta, Notley has semi-recently moved to Seattle to write jokes for video games, with some success.

August J. Pollak

August J. Pollak, 25, is the creator of Some Guy With a Website, which appears in various publications and websites including The Madison Observer, In These Times, and CampusProgress.org. He has also done illustration work for numerous popular websites and blogs, including CampusProgress.org, Colorado Confidential, and Pandagon.net. A graduate of NYU's animation program, Pollak has been working with comics, illustration, and animation for over seven years.

Ted Rall

Ted Rall is the editor of the three Attitude anthologies as well as stand-alone "Attitude Presents" collections by Andy Singer, Neil Swaab and Stephanie McMillan. His political and social commentary cartoons and columns appear in more than 100 newspapers nationally. He is the author of 14 books including, most recently, "Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?" Many people hate him. Others don't.

Mikhaela Reid

Mikhaela B. Reid ("The Boiling Point") is a 26-year-old freelance political cartoonist and illustrator whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Phoenix, Metro Times, Ms., The Funny Times, and other assorted fine publications. In 2006, one of her cartoons was featured in the MOCCA art show "She Draws Comics: A Century of Women Cartoonists" and she was named one of Girls in Government's Real Hot 100. Mikhaela lives in Brooklyn with fellow Cartoonist with Attitude Masheka Wood and their less-than-bright cat, Riley.

Ben Smith

Ben Smith is a former law student who, like many current or former members of that career track, dulls his "Attitude" and his rage at the world by drinking. Heavily. He suggests you do the same...

Smith likes to think of Fighting Words as a "graphic column," combining the argumentation and in-depth issue-analysis of a political column with drawings of government officials as small children. The feature runs regularly in Eat the State! (Seattle, WA), and can be seen online on various webcomics sites and in links and props across the political blogosphere. Smith is also a member of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists.

Jen Sorensen

Jen Sorensen is the cartoonist behind "Slowpoke," a weekly strip which appears in alternative newspapers around the country. Slowpoke is also featured in the Funny Times, WorkingforChange.com, CampusProgress.org, and has appeared in The American Prospect, Ms. Magazine, and Z Magazine. In 2005, Slowpoke won first place in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Awards. Jen's latest book is "Slowpoke: America Gone Bonkers." In addition to Slowpoke, she also does freelance illustration for Nickelodeon Magazine and other publications. She lives in Charlottesville, VA with her husband and small canine unit.

Shannon Wheeler

Shannon Wheeler draws a weekly cartoon called "How to Be Happy" that he self-syndicates out to about a dozen papers. He also draws a strip called "Postage Stamp Funnies" for the print version of the Onion. He's received numerous National awards for his artwork including the Hatch Broadcasting Award and Eisner Award. He began drawing cartoons while studying architecture at UC Berkeley and has been chronicling the adventures of Too Much Coffee Man since 1993. Darkhorse has published many of the Too Much Coffee Man comics in four graphic novels. Wheeler has recently produced the Too Much Coffee Man Opera which is the very first opera based on a comic book. The opera played in downtown Portland with an extended run and sold out house. Wheeler resides in Portland, Oregon with his twin boys.

Masheka Wood

Masheka Wood ("Not Just Knee Deep") grew up in Boston where he was warped by Mad Magazine, Night Flights, Garbage Pail Kids and Tex Avery cartoons. His lettering, cartoon and illustration work has appeared on MTV and in the New Standard. Currently Masheka makes his home in Brooklyn, NY, where he is drawing a series of Dirty Letters.