Freedom From Religion Foundation2006 - 29th Annual Convention |
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Convention Speakers
After a stretch in the Marine Corps and, while working on a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, Mike Keefe began drawing editorial cartoons for the campus newspaper. The Vietnam War was winding down and Watergate was heating up. With material this rich, Keefe was fooled into believing that cartooning would always be easy. He gave up math and was hired by the Denver Post where he still works today.
His cartoons have appeared in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, The New Republic, The New York Times, Business Week, The Washington Post and are syndicated in hundreds of other newspapers and magazines.
With varying degrees of success, Keefe has dabbled in cartoon strips, animation, short stories and plays.
Keefe served as president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and is a former John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. Among other honors, heÕs won the National HeadlinerÕs Award, Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award, The Best of the West Journalism contest, and the Fischetti Cartoon Competition. Keefe served as a Pulitzer Prize juror in 1997 and 98.
On the internet his cartoons can be seen at www.InToon.com.
Keefe, a son of Santa Rosa, California and a product of the St. Louis, Missouri public school system, now lives in Evergreen, Colorado, at 8,000 feet above sea level. He is married with two children. And like most cartoonists he knows, Keefe plays in a rock band on the weekends.
He will receive a "Freethought in the Media: Tell It Like It Is" Award, and will speak on: "Drawing a Line Between Church & State."