Khalil Bendib

Khalil Bendib (b. Paris, France) is an Algerian-born fine artist and political cartoonist. Born during the Algerian revolution, Bendib grew up in Morocco and Algeria, but has lived in California since the age of 20; he currently resides in Berkeley, California.

Bendib became a professional political cartoonist and sculptor/ceramicist after earning his Master's Degree at the University of Southern California in 1982. In addition to his popular cartoons, Bendhib's fine art and sculpture can be found around the world.

In 1995, Bendib resigned a position he had held for eight years working for Gannett Newspapers (based at the "San Bernardino County Sun") because he believed his work was being unnecessarily censored.

Largely utilizing the internet, Bendib now distributes his political cartoons independently to alternative media outlets outside of the corporate mainstream media. By August 2007, when his first book, "Mission Accomplished: Wicked Cartoons by America's Most Wanted Political Cartoonist," was published, Bendib's cartoons had appeared in more than 1,700 small and mid-sized newspapers.

Bendib co-hosts a weekly one-hour radio program called "Voices of the Middle East and North Africa" on Pacifica Radio station KPFA (94.1 FM), in Berkeley, California.

He is running a spoof campaign for President of the United States, claiming to be the first Muslim-American candidate. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/09/10/EDSES1H2N.DTL] However, Randall A. Venson, an actual candidate preceded him in 2000. [http://politics1.com/indep2k.htm]

Bibliography

*"Mission Accomplished: Wicked Cartoons by America's Most Wanted Political Cartoonist," Olive Branch Press/Interlink Books, 2007.

External links

* [http://www.bendib.com/ Khalil Bendib's political cartoons website]
* [http://www.studiobendib.com/ Studio Bendib]
* [http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=1612 Mission Accomplished]
* [http://ihsan-net.blogspot.com/2005/04/conversation-with-arab-american-artist.html A Conversation with Arab-American Artist Khalil Bendib April 29, 2005]
* [http://www.kpfa.org/voicesofthemiddleeast/ KPFA Voices of the Middle East]