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Chicago, IL — Gabriel Carroll-Dolci has been hired by Gay Chicago Magazine as its new political cartoonist.

Born and raised in Kansas City, MO, he started his work in political cartooning with his high school newspaper, The Criterion, poking fun at class, US elections and the presidency of George W. Bush for extra credit.

After graduation in 2001, Carroll-Dolci started work as a caricature artist at the Kaman's Art Department, developing skills he would eventually use in his line of work as a political cartoonist. He began college at Central Missouri State University in 2002 and worked as a cartoonist on the school's paper, The Weekly Mule.

With his general educations credits out of the way, he ventured north in 2004 to become a Traditional Animation major at Columbia College Chicago. In his second semester in 2005, Columbia's televised sketch comedy show, Out on a Limb, aired his political animation, George Bush Whatever, on WYCC. While attending Columbia, he received awards from the annual Pffefer/Fischetti Political Cartoon Contest two years in a row: First place for one-panel, an honorable mention for multipanel in 2006, first place for multipanel and second place for one-panel in 2007.

After graduation in May 2007, his political cartoons appeared in Chicago Clubline, his animations screened at Second City, and his background designs were featured in the collective animation, Common Thread, at the Chicago Children's Film Festival.

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