From his drawing board at the Akron Beacon Journal, Chip Bok has won two National Cartoonists Society awards for Best Editorial Cartoonist (1995, 1999). He was a Pulitzer finalist in 1997. Other awards include the Fischetti Award (1988), National Press Foundation Berryman award (1993), H.L. Mencken Award (1993), and four Ohio A.P. Awards (1992, 1996, 1999, 2000).

Bok’s cartoons appear in Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and many other newspapers, magazines and websites through Creators Syndicate. Readers can comment on his cartoons at his blog, Bokbluster: http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/bok/

He began his career as the editorial cartoonist at the Clearwater Sun in 1980. In 1983, he joined Knight-Ridder’s early online venture, Viewtron. He also illustrated Dave Barry’s column and drew a weekly cartoon for the Miami Herald’s late great Sunday magazine, Tropic. He became editorial cartoonist for the original John S. Knight paper, the Akron Beacon Journal, in 1987.

He drew on his early experience at Viewtron to produce animated editorial cartoons on PBS stations in Cleveland, Atlanta, Palm Beach and Dayton.

He is the author of two books: Bok! The 9/11 Crisis in Political Cartoons (University of Akron Press, 2002) and A Recent History of the United States in Political Cartoons: A Look Bok! (University of Akron Press, 2005).

Bok is a graduate of the University of Dayton and currently lives in Akron with his wife Deb and two of their four children.