JEFFREY KOTERBA is a writer, cartoonist, and musician.
His memoir, Inklings (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), was named a Chicago Tribune Favorite Nonfiction book of 2009. Entertainment Weekly called Inklings “…a powerful and moving portrait of an artist.” Inklings will be released in paperback in November 2010.
Since joining the Omaha World-Herald as a cartoonist in 1989, Koterba has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. In 2009 and 2010, he won first place for editorial cartooning in the Great Plains Journalism Awards.
His cartoons are distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers, and have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today, and on CNN.
He is lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the Prairie Cats, a swing and jump-blues band he formed in 1998. Prairie Cats have performed at the South by Southwest Music Festival, the Derby Lounge in Hollywood, and Windows on the World.
Visit him at http://jeffreykoterba.com/ or follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/jeffreykoterba.
Posted September 24, 2010 | 13:00:37 (EST)