About Keith J. Taylor

Oak Park-based cartoonist Keith J. Taylor, who died Dec. 16, 2021, was an irrepressible source of political satire whose cartoons appeared frequently in Chicago Public Square.

His work posthumously earned him Chicago Reader readers’ 2021 Best of Chicago Award for Best Comics Illustrator. That followed a 2020 Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor Award for Best Illustration. In 2019, he took top spot in the Reader’s Best of Chicago Poll for Best Visual Artist and was a co-honoree in Square’s Lisagor Award for Best Independent Blog. (Photo: Lynn Tripoli Young.)

He was the author of four collections of political cartoons:
■ Mostly Trump and Other Disasters, Vol. 1
■ Mostly Trump and Other Disasters, Vol. 2
■ Mostly Trump and Other Disasters, Vol. 3
■ Mostly Trump and Other Disasters, Vol. 4

… and The Book of Streams, a collection of original pen and ink drawings created from 2010 to 2012.

Keith discussed his art in this 2019 interview:

From his first contribution to Square, in March 2018, to his last, on Nov. 22, 2021, he made this publication better—and funnier.