The 2017 EveryLibrary Artist In Residence, Kevin Moore, is an editorial cartoonist and has been a reference librarian at Portland Community College, OR, since 2007. Moore was invited to create a series of weekly editorial cartoons focusing on library-related issues from September 4 through November 7—“the traditional ‘Labor Day to Election Day’ period when political and issue campaigns are in the minds of voters across the country,” according to EveryLibrary political director P.C. Sweeney (a 2015 Library Journal Mover & Shaker). The cartoons are available for library supporters to use, copyright-free, in their advocacy work.
Moore contributed ten weekly cartoons, touching on issues from library values to net neutrality to book challenges. His work is sometimes surreal, sometimes slapstick, and will strike a familiar chord for anyone who works or spends time in libraries.