Biography
By
throwing himself into auto assembly line work, the United States Marines
and graduate school in mathematics, Mike Keefe desperately hoped to suppress
his secret nature. But then, in an unguarded moment during Watergate, he
found himself drawn to Richard Nixon’s nose. He’s been out of
the closet and cartooning ever since.
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. Nationally syndicated, his cartoons have appeared in Europe, Asia and in most major U.S. news magazines and hundreds of newspapers across the country.
Keefe’s animations have appeared on broadcast TV, the internet and CD-Rom magazines.
He has won top honors in the Fischetti, National Headliners Club, Society of Professional Journalists and Best of the West contests. He was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University and is a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He was a juror for the 1997 and 1998 Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism.
Keefe is the author of the books Running Awry, Keefe-Kebab and The Ten-Speed Commandments. He was co-creator (with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist Tim Menees) of the nationally-syndicated comic strips, Cooper and Iota.
He plays guitar and harmonica for the bar band, Falling Rock. Keefe has two grown children and lives with his wife in downtown Denver. He has no known allergies.
Major Awards
- Best of The West, 2008
- Fischetti Award, 2007
- Mountain States ADL - Fredom of the Press Award, 2007
- Colorado ACLU TAJIR Media Award, 2007
- FFRF: Free Thought in the Media Award, 2006
- Best of The West 2002
- Fischetti Award, 1991
- Sigma Delta Chi Award, 1986
- National Headliner Award, 1986