Glenn McCoy
Glenn McCoy has been long recognized by his peers as a superior cartoonist. Over the past eight years, the National Cartoonist Society has twice named McCoy the Magazine Cartoonist of the Year. He has also won the Editorial Cartoonist of the Year and Greeting Card Cartoonist of the Year awards, making him the first recipient to be honored in three categories. His editorial cartoons have been reprinted in the New York Times, USA Today and Newsweek, and appear frequently on CNN. They also have been collected in two previous books, "Pot Shots" and "Pot Shots 2," both dealing with Bill Clinton’s years in office.
McCoy was born in St. Louis in 1965 and began drawing at age four under the tutelage of his grandfather and his older brother. Weaned on Peanuts paperbacks, he acquired an early interest in cartooning and pursued that interest as the cartoonist for his grade school, high school and college newspapers. He graduated in 1988 from Southern Illinois University with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and graphic design.
After receiving his degree, McCoy landed a job as editorial cartoonist for the Belleville News-Democrat in his hometown of Belleville, Ill. In 1990 he won a national talent search called “Create the Comics of the ’90s,” which prompted him to focus his efforts in the field of cartooning. Soon after, he began doing gag cartoons for some of the top magazines around the country.
In 1993 his comic strip, The Duplex, was picked up by Universal Press Syndicate, and in 1999 Universal began syndicating his editorial cartoons. A collection of his Duplex cartoons has been published by Andrews McMeel Publishing.
In addition to his editorial cartoons, comic strip and magazine cartoons, McCoy has designed and written for several animation studios including Dreamworks SKG, Film Roman and Walt Disney TV and Feature Animation. His first children’s book, “Penny Lee and Her TV” (Hyperion), was published in 2002, and his second will be out Christmas of 2004.
Gary McCoy
Gary McCoy was born in 1962 and developed a lifelong love of cartooning alongside his younger brother, Glenn.
For 14 years, Gary worked as the editorial cartoonist for the Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis. His work on Illinois state-issues was distributed by Copley News Service, and has been reprinted in The Washington Post, as well as some textbooks. His work has also appeared in "Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year" (Pelican Publishing Co.).
Gary is the main cartoonist for Vivid, an English language magazine dealing with art, culture, lifestyle and politics, published in Bucharest, Romania. He also freelances as a cartoonist and humor illustrator.
In 1993, under the persuasion of his brother, Glenn (who was doing "The Duplex," a comic strip syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate), Gary created a short-lived comic strip launched in 1995 called, "That's My Dad."
Gary's work as a graphic artist and freelance cartoonist has generated an impressive client list including companies such as Anheuser-Busch, Gibson Greetings, Disney's ABC.com, NobleWorks, Inc., Marcel Schurman Design, and Playboy magazine. His work for these clients garnered him three consecutive nominations from the National Cartoonists Society — two as best gag cartoonist of the year, and one as best greeting-card cartoonist. Gary also dabbled in stand-up comedy, winning HBO's Stand-Up Stand-Off contest for the St. Louis area in 1995.
"The Flying McCoys" is the realization of his lifelong dream to collaborate with his brother, Glenn, on a syndicated feature. Gary resides in Belleville, Ill. — just across the Mississippi River from his hometown of St. Louis.
