| Matt Bors | |
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 Matt Bors atStumptown Comics Fest 2013 | |
| Born | Matthew Bors (1983-01-29)January 29, 1983 (age 42) Canton, Ohio |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
| Awards | Herblock Prize for Excellence in Cartooning,Sigma Delta Chi Award for Editorial Cartooning |
Matt Bors (born 1983) is a nationally syndicated American editorial cartoonist and editor of online comics publicationThe Nib. Formerly the comics journalism editor forCartoon Movement, he was a finalist for thePulitzer Prize in 2012 and 2020, and became the first alt-weekly cartoonist to win theHerblock Prize for Excellence in Cartooning.[1]
Originally fromCanton, Ohio,[2][3] Bors attended theArt Institute of Pittsburgh, where he first began drawing editorial cartoons for the student newspaper.[4] At 23, his work became syndicated byUniversal Features, making him the youngest syndicated cartoonist in the country at that time.[4] His work has since appeared in theLos Angeles Times,The Nation,The Village Voice,The Daily Beast, and onDaily Kos. In 2012, US CongressmanJohn Larson used one of Bors's cartoons during a house floor on theAffordable Care Act.[5]
His first graphic novel,War Is Boring, a collaboration with journalistDavid Axe, was published in 2010 by New American Library.[6]
In September 2013, Bors began working in a full-time capacity as a cartoonist, writer and comics editor ofThe Nib atMedium.[7] In July 2015 Bors left Medium.[8] In February 2016First Look Media announced that they had acquiredThe Nib and would be collaborating with Bors to relaunch the site.[9]
Bors has lived inPortland, Oregon, since 2008,[2] but in late July 2020 he announced that he would soon be moving toOntario, Canada.[10]
In addition to his editorial cartoons, Bors has also worked as both editor and journalist in the field ofcomics journalism. In December 2010, Bors joined the newly launched Cartoon Movement, an online platform for editorial cartoons and comics journalism from around the world, as Comics Journalism Editor.[11] In 2010, Bors travelled to Afghanistan with Ted Rall, his first trip outside of the United States.[3] He filed sketches and editorial cartoons while in Afghanistan which he later expanded to full-length comics published on Cartoon Movement.[12]
In the summer of 2011 he traveled with Cartoon Movement to Haiti, to coordinate a comics project with Haitian cartoonists that would document the effects of the2010 earthquake one year after the catastrophe.[13][14] The first part of the 75-page comics project, entitled Tents beyond Tents, was published in January 2012.[15] In 2012 Bors released "Haiti’s Scapegoats," an animated documentary short exploring the LGBT community in Haiti, produced in collaboration with Cartoon Movement and video journalist Caroline Dijckmeester-Bins.[16]
In April 2021, Bors announced that he was retiring from editorial cartooning in order to focus more on his work in comics journalism.[17]
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