Mike Keefe

Mike Keefe 2009

The Denver Post

Mike Keefe has been the editorial cartoonist for The Denver Post since 1975. Throughout the nineties he was a weekly contributor to USA Today and a regular on America Online. His cartoons have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Business Week, US News and World Report, The New York Times, The Washington Post among others. Keefe served as president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and is a former John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. He’s won the National Headliner’s Award, Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award, The Best of the West Journalism Contest and the Fischetti Cartoon Competition. He served as a Pulitzer Prize juror in 1997 and 98. Keefe is the author of Running Awry, McGraw Hill; Keefe-Kebab, The Denver Post Corporation; and The 10 Speed Commandments, Doubleday. Keefe is a former US Marine and a college math teacher. He is married with two grown children and plays guitar regularly with Falling Rock, an oldies cover band. His cartoons can be viewed online at www.intoon.com

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