a brief history

From 1987 through 1994 Bill Mitchell toiled, as a political cartoonist, in the vineyards of legacy media. In the spring of 1990 he was awarded a Michigan Journalism Fellowship and spent a paid year studying at a university that wouldn't have admitted him as a freshman. In 1993 he published a collection of his cartoons (which is currently in the Amazon.com top 1,007,230 click here to buy a copy) wittily titled Mitchell's View. In 1994 Mitchell was awarded his second journalism fellowship (with yet another huge stipend). In September of that year, trying to look busy at the USC school of journalism and using something called a "browser" he logged onto the World Wide Web for the first time. By Thanksgiving he had decided that the future of political cartooning would be on the Web. By spring of 1995 Mitchell had moved to a small town in the Rockies and began making and publishing cartoons for this new medium. By October, Mitchell was hired by the legendary editor Jim Bellows to contribute political cartoons to a new Web site which would shortly change its name from Architext to Excite. By 1997 Mitchell was cartooning for the CNN Web site AllPolitics.com. He now syndicates his cartoons to a number of sites across the web, including Boston.com.