Eliamaría Madrid is a cartoonist, illustrator, and content creator based in Dallas, Texas. Having doodled and drawn for a majority of her youth, she got started her first big project at age 17, which was Elia in a Box Webcomic, a slice-of-life comic strip retelling of the silly moments in her life. She also illustrated comics for her high school newspaper, the Campus Corral and marketing campaigns for her high school’s theatre department, having been a finalist at the State and International levels of the Thespian Festivals. 

While in college pursuing a theatre degree, she drew comics for the university newspaper, The Shorthorn. Her comic strips, featuring famed-UTA professor Dr. Allan Saxe, won her the Colombia Scholastic Press Award for Comic Cartoons in Digital Media. Upon graduating with her Theatre degree, she realized her passion for comedy, design, and performing was better executed in an illustrative-storytelling manner. From then on, she decided that’s what she wanted to do and has loved it ever since.

Elia is currently working on wrapping up her first Graphic Novel while creating silly art content online and collaborating with fellow creatives to build the art and creative communities. Elia is a proud ambassador with the JDRF, being a type 1 diabetic herself, and hopes to use her art and platform to help raise awareness and fund for cure research.

Learn more about Eliamaría Madrid and see her work here.

Reynaldo Menchaca is a Texas born and raised Cartoonist. As a child growing up watching cartoons on tv on Saturday mornings, the love for art was instilled very early. Rey was fascinated by classic cartoons such as Looney Tunes, Scooby Doo, and Gundam.

Reynaldo took this inspiration and sought to breathe a new dynamic style to cartoons while keeping the whimsical fantasy that seeded the love for art in the first place. Reynaldo’s unique vision has provided opportunities such as working on campaigns for Tech N9ne, the biggest independent artist in the world, to local community work for Texas State University.

Learn more about Reynaldo and see his work here.

Follow him on Facebook and Instagram.

Adrian Zuniga is a cartoonist based in Fort Worth, Texas with a passion for drawing silly cartoons. He found his inspiration at the age of 7 by watching Looney Tunes and reading old Garfield comics he would find at the thrift stores his parents would drag him to. His “formal” instruction came when he stumbled into Bruce Blitz cartooning books in his public library. From then on, he has not been able to stay away from cartooning even if he tried! Today, Adrian is a freelance cartoonist creating cartoon illustrations, comics and custom caricatures for his clients.

Adrian gets his inspiration and motivation from everyday life, his wife, three kids and his dog. He is determined to show his family that there’s always a way to make your dreams come true. 

Check out his work on https://zunitoonz.com/.

Donnie Pitchford will be honored on Friday, February 16 at The Esquire Theater in Carthage, TX as part of the Carthage Main Street 2024 Arts Walk of Fame Induction.

Pitchford says, ” I am blessed and honored to be part of the Carthage, Texas Main Street Arts Walk of Fame being held in two weeks (February 16)! I hope to see family, friends, former students, church family, etc. there!”

Read more at The Panola Watchman and at LumandAbnerComics.com.

Congrats, Donnie!

Welcome, Francisco Riojas – our newest member!

Francisco Riojas is the creator of The Maizanos and The Paisanos. From an early age, Francisco would gravitate towards the comics section of the San Antonio Express News that his grandfather would provide on a weekly basis. Frequently spending time at the local public library and escaping into published collections of Garfield, The Far Side, Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbs, Where’s Waldo and many more, Francisco was inspired to pick up drawing and dream to one day be amongst the great creators that he has admired since childhood.

The comic strip of The Maizanos is based on a family of tamales that reflect the experiences of life as Mexican Americans along the southern border. The Paisanos is a series inspired by current events related to immigration and the politics that surround it.

Check out his work: https://texascartoonists.com/francisco-riojas/

Gotta check this out!! NCS Members Hector, Carlos and Frederick will be featured guests at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University.

Join them on Saturday, January 20 for a reception to celebrate the opening of this exhibition and a program featuring Lalo Alcaraz, Hector D. Cantú, Carlos Castellanos and Frederick Luis Aldama.

Alejandro is our newest member from Mexico, and currently living in McCallen, Texas. He has a long and brilliant history as an internationally published cartoonist . Check out Alejandro’s page to see some of the major projects he has completed. We’re excited to have him associated with Texas Cartoonists!

Congratulations Davy for becoming a part of the National Cartoonists Society family. You’ve worked hard to achieve this goal, and you succeeded! We’re looking forward to more great art from you.

You will love visiting Jesse’s page, looking at his delightful art, and reading about his interview with GoComics. Jesse is a musician, an astronomer as well as a cartoonist, and a family man who gets much of his inspiration from his children.

WELCOME ABOARD JESSE!

Richard Brooks and Richard Dominguez recently became full members of the National Cartoonists Society, the world’s largest and most prestigious organization of professional cartoonists. It was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the troops.