Jim Bush grew up in Cambridge, MA and attended Kenyon College for Studio Art and Polical Science, class of '88. He is an award-winning artist, member of the Providence Art Club and a former member of the Sakonnet Artists Cooperative in Tiverton, RI. His true passion lies in turning the issues of the day into “cartoon” statements for The Providence Journal, where his editorial cartoons have appeared since 1994. Nationally, his cartoons have appeared in the Washington Post National Weekly Edition, The Dallas Morning News, and he has drawn for Tribune Media Services College Press Syndicate. He has annually, since 1994, been included in the publication The Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year. While drawing cartoons on national subjects is unavoidable, local material almost draws itself, and is far more rewarding and cruel. As his editor Robert Whitcomb wrote: “Like many transplants to Rhode Island, he (Jim) quickly learned that the uncanny beauty of the state was equaled only by the cynicism of its citizenry, giving Mr. Bush the ideal perch for an editorial cartoonist.” He owns a small building in Warren RI, on the corner of Main and Child Streets (Routes 114 and 103) that he has converted into a studio/gallery space, which pleases his wife no end. He lives in Providence with said wife, two exhausting young boys, one devilish daughter and a new puppy.
