Steve Kelley
Political cartoonist Steve Kelley joined The New Orleans Times-Picayune after spending the first two decades of his career in San Diego, a move he describes as "cultural whiplash":

"I went from neat, tidy, well-governed San Diego to New Orleans -- the absolute epicenter of patronage and corruption. It was like being married to a Junior Leaguer for 20 years, then waking up one morning next to Dennis Rodman."

Kelley's cartoons are syndicated to more than 100 newspapers and often appear in The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, USA Today, Time and Newsweek.

Not content with amusing people in print, Kelley writes and performs comedy, a pastime that led him to seven appearances on The Tonight Show, both with Johnny Carson and Jay Leno.

He has published two collections of his work, Steve Kelley's Greatest Hits, and Art Irritates Life: Cartoons on Politics and Stuff People Actually Care About.

Kelley is the father of a 10-year-old son, Hayden, about whom he brags without regard to the listener's interest.

Jeff Parker
Growing up with rockets on Florida's space coast, Jeff Parker first began drawing editorial cartoons for Florida Environments newsmagazine in 1989 followed by Orlando Business Journal in 1990 before joining his hometown newspaper, Florida Today, in 1992. His cartoons are distributed to hundreds of national and international newspapers by Cagle Cartoons Syndicate.

In addition to editorial cartooning, Jeff helps Mike Peters produce his comic strip, Mother Goose & Grimm.

Jeff is a member of both the National Cartoonists Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. His cartoon recognition includes awards from Gannett News Service, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, the Florida Press Club and the Florida Press Association. In 2005, Jeff was honored to take home the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Division Award for Editorial Cartooning after four prior nominations. He has been published in Pelican Books' Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year since 1992.

His cartoons have also been regularly featured nationally and internationally in magazines, books and broadcast media, including CNN, Fox News, USA Today, Newsweek, Time, The Washington Post, Le Monde, Courrier International and The New York Times.

In 1999, Jeff traveled to Cuba on assignment with a contingent of 18 American cartoonists to get an inside look at one of the last bastions of communism. His journal and sketch diary of the trip were later reproduced in three editions of Florida Today.

Jeff works from his home studio. His wife, Pat, considers him her only child.