Isabella Bannerman

Isabella Bannerman (Mondays): Originally from Buffalo, Isabella spent her formative cartooning years in New York City. Her work has appeared nationwide in alternative news-weeklies, and a book of her cartoons, "Pacifists in Bomber Jackets," was published in 1998. She currently lives with her husband and two sons in Westchester County, N.Y.

Margaret Shulock

Margaret Shulock (Tuesdays): As a kid, when she wasn't drawing, Margaret was usually hanging out in the barn, wondering what the chickens were really talking about. Now she lives in the wilds of New York State, still drawing and still wondering about her neighbors. How do porcupines pass the time on those long winter nights? Margaret's work has been published in King Features' New Breed package of cutting-edge cartoons.

Rina Piccolo

Rina Piccolo (Wednesdays): Cartooning all her life, Rina had her very first newspaper comic rejected when she was 10. Today she is the successful author of three cartoon book collections. Her new comic strip, "Tina's Groove," launched in March 2002, and is being met with great success. She lives in Canada.

Anne Gibbons

Anne Gibbons(Thursdays): Gibbons joined the "Six Chix" lineup in June 2007. In addition to her Thursday "Six Chix" panel, Gibbons creates the comic strip, Eve’n Steven, which appears weekly in the award-winning newspaper, The Riverdale Press.
Gibbons' cartoons have appeared in numerous magazines, books and on greeting cards. In 2000, The National Cartoonists Society honored Gibbons with the prestigious Reuben Award for Greeting Cards.

Benita Epstein

Benita Epstein (Fridays) Before becoming a cartoonist, Benita Epstein earned a B.S. and an M.S. in Entomology from the University of California, Davis, then, as Staff Research Associate at several universities studied yellow-fever mosquitoes, photosynthesis, lung surfactant and autism. She also assisted her husband in ecological field research on islands around the world.

Her newspaper panel, DRAWING A CROWD, was nationally syndicated from January 2002 to June 2003. The National Cartoonists Society nominated her four times for Best Gag (Magazine) Cartoonist of the Year and twice for Best Greeting Card Cartoonist of the Year.

Epstein’s cartoons have been published in hundreds of magazines including The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review and American Scientist. Her specialties are cartoons on medicine and science for the professional, travel industry cartoons, education cartoons for teachers and professors, Jewish lifestyle, holiday cartoons, business cartoons, relationship cartoons, women's cartoons and greeting cards.

Stephanie Piro

Stephanie Piro (Saturdays): This Brooklyn-born cartoonist's characters first embellished T-shirts and kitchen magnets as products of her award-winning company, Strip-T's. Her work has since appeared in Glamour, Ms., The Funny Times, Comic Relief and the Women's Glib series of humor anthologies. Two collections of her cartoons have been published by Laugh Lines Press. Stephanie lives in New Hampshire with her husband, daughter and three cats.