Jim Keefe

United States

Syndicated Cartoonist and Illustrator at King Features Syndicate

Cartoonist. Artist for the Sally Forth comic strip. Writer/Artist of Flash Gordon back in the day. Teacher/Lecturer/Student of the craft.

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Batman Day | Jim Keefe

Sep 20, 2024 | patreon.com | Jim Keefe

September 21st is Batman Day! And what better way to celebrate than to focus on Batman's creators... If you want Bob Kane's self-serving fi...
Mutts 30th Anniversary | Jim Keefe

Sep 5, 2024 | patreon.com | Jim Keefe

Happy 30th anniversary to the comic strip Mutts by Patrick McDonnell. The Sunday page shown above was originally intended to be the final Flash Gordon strip of my tenure back in 2003, with an art assist by Patrick McDonnell. This was nixed by the comics editor up at King who, in his opinion, just didn't think it worked as a Flash Gordon page. Since it wasn't going to run as a Flash Gordon page Patrick asked that same editor if he could run it as a Mutts Sunday page instead.
Autoptic Festival 2024 | Jim Keefe

Aug 18, 2024 | patreon.com | Jim Keefe

Just a few pics from the 2024 Autoptic Festival - August 17th at the Coffman Memorial Union on the University of Minnesota campus. Missed getting pics of a ton of other talented artists as I was also tabling.
The High Kings | Jim Keefe

Aug 14, 2024 | patreon.com | Jim Keefe

Going to see the High KingsAugust 15th at the Parkway Theater here in Minneapolis. As such I thought it would be fun to rerun this Patreon Post highlighting some of the art I've done of them over the years... The first time I saw the High Kings play was back in 2015. I posted a drawing online with Flash and Dale looking forward to seeing them perform - and The High Kings ended up reposting it on their Facebook page.
War Related Graphic Novels | Jim Keefe

Aug 9, 2024 | patreon.com | Jim Keefe

There's a ton of great nonfiction graphic novels out there - memoirs, historical - but I want to focus for now on just seven that are drawn from real life wartime experiences (no pun intended). Maus by Art Spiegelman This Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel tells the story of the Holocaust by way of Art Spiegelman’s conversations with his father, Vladek Spiegelman, a survivor of the concentration camps. Jews are depicted as mice, Germans as cats, and Poles as pigs.
Pencil to Pencil Podcast | Jim Keefe

Jul 28, 2024 | patreon.com | Jim Keefe

Just a quick heads up that I'm being interviewed on the Pencil to Pencil live stream on Wednesday July 31 at 8 PM Eastern standard time. If you can't catch the live stream, you can check it out later on the Pencil to Pencil YouTube channel.
San Diego Comic Con 1998 | Jim Keefe

Jul 24, 2024 | patreon.com | Jim Keefe

The San Diego Comic Con for 2024 runs from Thursday July 25th to Sunday July 28th. It's one of the biggest and most iconic comic cons in the US. That said, I've only been to it once. The following are some pics from that 1998 outing. This was pre-Marvel Movies, so no pictures of Robert Downey Jr. Met the amazing Jim Mooney in Artist Alley and was able to commiserate a little about the biz. He then gave me a “discount rate” of $40 for one of his signed Man-Thing pages.
Sally Forth - Rhapsody in Blue | Jim Keefe

Jul 17, 2024 | patreon.com | Jim Keefe

Note: Paid subscribers get a sneak peak for this post. Usually I do a color guide for the Sally Forth Sunday pages, but for the July 21st strip I did the color separations in photoshop myself as I wanted something very specific in mind. Here's what the original art looked like. Note: Added a little digital art to that first panel using a similar scene from the June 22nd strip. And here's the finished color. The 5th panel making the most use of color.
Sally Forth - July 7, 2024 | Jim Keefe

Jul 6, 2024 | patreon.com | Jim Keefe

How to draw a comic strip. First draw some random word balloons shapes. Next step, draw some pictures. Then send it to Francesco to think up some dialogue - and voila! A Sally Forth Sunday page! Easter Egg time!For those people who also read Francesco's other comic strip, Judge Parker - drawn by Marvelous Mike Manley - you may recognize someone from the first panel that Francesco put into the script/scene description. Here's a hint... I took Mike's drawing - flipped it - then Sally Forthed it. -Jim
Francesco Marciuliano Cameo | Jim Keefe

Jun 23, 2024 | patreon.com | Jim Keefe

Francesco Marciuliano popped in for a cameo for the June 24th Sally Forth strip. The most recent image I have of him was when he was on Comics Culture not too long ago, so I went from that. Wait a minute - a Francesco Marciuliano interview on the PBS show, Comics Culture, with award winning host, Terence Dollard? Here's the link... Comics Culture with Francesco MarciulianoAnd just for fun, the companion piece with my interview. Comics Culture with Jim Keefe-Jim