Tayo Fatunla Nigeria/UK Tayo Fatunla is a member of the National Cartoonists Society and CartoonArts International/New York Times Syndicate both U.S. based and the National Union of Journalists, U.K. An artist, designer, and educator, his work has been published in several national newspapers in Nigeria, and he has exhibited and taught workshops in the U.K., France, Egypt, Finland, Nigeria, Italy, Ireland and the United States. He lives in Kent, England. Brian Gable Canada Born in 1949 in Saskatoon, BRIAN GABLE studied fine arts at the University of Saskatchewan. Graduating with a B.Ed. from the University of Toronto in 1971, he taught art in Brockville and began freelancing for the Brockville Recorder and Times in 1977. In 1980 he started full-time with the Regina Leader-Post and is presently the editorial cartoonist for The Globe and Mail. He has won National Newspaper Awards in 1986, 1995 and 2001. Gado (Godfrey Mwampembwa) Kenya Gado started cartooning at age fifteen and was soon freelancing for newspapers and magazines including Dar es Salaam’s Daily News, Business Times and The Express. Since 1992, he has worked for the Kenyan-based Daily Nation, the largest newspaper in East and Central Africa. In addition to illustration and cartooning, Gado is the author/illustrator of the comic book Abunuasi and the cartoon series Democrazy. Rainer Hachfeld Germany Rainer Hachfeld studied animation and stage design at Germany’s Meisterschule für das Kunsthandwerk and worked as a set designer for several political cabarets in West Germany during the ‘60s. He published his first political cartoons in 1962. Since 1990, Hachfeld has produced cartoons for such publications as Neues Deutschland, Le Monde and Die Zeit, and continues to write humorous and satirical plays and articles. Emad Hajjaj Jordan Born in Ramallah, Emad Hajjaj has worked for many local and national newspapers in Jordan and the U.K., including the leading Jordanian daily Al Rai, from which he was dismissed in the year 2000 following publication of controversial cartoons. He currently works for the London-based Al Quds Al Arabi. His publications include three volumes of political caricatures and most recently Why Me? (2004,) a book written with the Jordanian writer Moh’D Tomaliah. more cartoonist bios.....