Gary Huck

Gary Huck, labor cartoonist for the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America UE is a native of Racine, Wisconsin. In the 1970's Gary drew labor cartoons for the longest running labor weekly in the US, The Racine Labor. In 1985 Gary was hired by the UE to succeed the great Fred Wright as UE cartoonist.

Mike Konopacki

Mike Konopacki lives in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1974. He began labor cartooning for the Madison Press Connection, a local daily created by striking newspaper workers in 1977. After the paper folded in 1980, Mike began syndicating his labor cartoons through the labor news service, Press Associates, Inc. In 1983 he and Gary Huck created their own syndication service, Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons. Since that time Gary and Mike have published four collections of labor cartoons, Bye! American, THEM, MAD in USA and Working Class Hero. With writer Alec Dubro, Mike has written and drawn comic books and comics on the World Bank, welfare reform, union organizing, and the WTO. Mike's video animation appears in the Jeremy Brecher/Tim Costello video Global Village or Global Pillage.

Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki also provide cartoon workshops for labor conferences. Our workshops include:

- Give Your Boss and Art Attack: Teaching union memebers how to use graphics and visual techniques in campaigns (Organizing, Education, Health and Safety, etc.)
- Cartooning: Teaching labor cartooning to labor communicators.
- Collage Art: You don't have to be a cartoonist to cut out graphics from magazines and paste up your own poster. Anyone can do it!
- The Incomplete History of Labor Cartoons: A forty-five minute PowerPoint presentation on the history of Labor Cartoons from Paul Revere to the present.

Fee: Our fee is $500 per day per cartoonist plus travel expenses. E-mail us for more details: mkonopacki@earthlink.net.