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Matthew Filipowicz was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska and has been writing and performing comedy in one form or another since he was 17. He was the founder and head writer for the ground breaking sketch comedy troupe O.C.Y.C. which received “Critic’s Choice” from the Chicago Reader.
For close to three years Matthew created a new political cartoon every day for the website, Headzup.tv. Those same cartoons were also featured daily on Mike Papantonio’s (from “Ring of Fire Radio”) GoLeft.tv. Matthew has also made several exclusive clips for GoLeft, as well as a segment introduction for The Young Turks.
His cartoons have been featured on CNN, NPR, PBS, HBO, BBC, Ain’t It Cool News, the online versions of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Nation and the London Times, as well as Air America Radio’s the Thom Hartman Show, The Young Turks, Ring Of Fire and great deal of sites in the liberal blogosphere including Crooks & Liars, DailyKos, Brave New Films, and many, many more. He has created cartoons for VoteVets, the ACLU-SC, the Nation, Mother Jones Magazine, Netroots Nation, MoveOn.org, The Young Turks, the Center for Media and Democracy, and the National Conference For Media Reform.
He is also a regular contributor and sometimes guest-host on Ring of Fire Radio, blogs at the Huffington Post, is the co-head of Chicago’s Drinking Liberally chapter, and the head of Chicago’s Laughing Liberally chapter where he performs and screens cartoons with his comedy group, the Accountants of Homeland Security.
