About the author
Charlie Podrebarac’s cartoons have appeared in newspapers around the world as well as magazines such as Business Law Today, Nickelodeon, Playboy, The New York Times Book Review, KU Alumni Magazine and Veterinary Medicine.
In addition, he’s produced thousands of greeting cards, calendars and promotions for companies such as Hallmark, American Greetings, Paramount, Current, The Kansas City Chiefs, Black & Veatch, Polsinelli, Boulevard Beer, WireCo WorldGroup, The Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and The City Market.
He has also created advertising art for clients including Sprint, MasterCard, Book of the Month Club, Westar, KCI, The Las Vegas International Airport, MetLife, SkiBikeFun, and MaggieMoo’s Ice Cream Treateries.
Charity work includes Back in the Swing (Breast Cancer
Awareness), Wayside Waifs, The Kemper Museum of Art, Liberty Memorial WW1 Museum, The Strawberry Hill Museum, St. Luke’s Northland Hospital, The American Cancer Society and various charity auctions.
And since 1984, he has written and drawn his single-panel cartoon, Cowtown, for the Kansas City Star Magazine (also on GoComics.com with his classic FATCATS strip). In addition, you may have met him at the Plaza Art Fair, St. Louis Art Fair or the Brookside Art Annual where he has exhibited his original watercolors and acrylic paintings.