Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson, nationally syndicated cartoonist, illustrator and graphic designer. Currently draws editorial cartoons for the Chicago Defender newspaper and serves as Art Director for LifeTimes newspaper; a publication of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois and Texas. Native of Dayton, Ohio, Jackson's childhood desire to be a cartoonist was first realized at the age of 14, when one of his cartoons appeared in the Dayton Journal Herald. This began his earliest introduction into journalism. During high school, he participated in the school's newspaper as a means to get his cartoons in print, yet being eager to help out where he could, learned a little bit about writing and layout along the way. After a series of his comic strips were printed in the Dayton Daily News, Jackson was offered a weekend job with the Dayton Black Press where he got the opportunity to watch and get some hands-on experience in the actual production of the community newspaper. Jackson relocated to Chicago to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he majored film, animation and art education and spent several years teaching cartooning at community centers and at Truman College's adult education program. A book published by the National Association of the Deaf was created in 1982 titled Signing with Friends, drawing upon experiences from high school's Hearing Impaired Program, (HIP), and characters from Jackson's comic strip, What Are Friends For? In 1990, five years after founding his own business, Creative License Studio, Inc., to provide art and graphics to other businesses, Jackson began to syndicate his social commentary (editorial) cartoons to newspapers around the country as well as drawing and publishing social awareness comic books that were distributed through Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Department of Health. In 1995, to mark 10 years of self-employment, Jackson published a collection of his social commentary cartoons as a book titled, Continuously Dis'd by The System. Tim Jackson is currently a member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) and the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).
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