Keith J. Taylor

Artist Oak Park-based cartoonist Keith J. Taylor, who died Dec. 16, 2021, was an irrepressible source of political satire whose cartoons appeared frequently in Chicago Public Square. His work posthumously earned him Chicago Reader readers’ 2021 Best of Chicago Award for Best Comics Illustrator. That followed a 2020 Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor Award for Best Illustration. In 2019, he took top spot in the Reader’s Best of Chicago Poll for Best Visual Artist and was a co-honoree in Square’s Lisagor Award for Best Independent Blog.