Neal Obermeyer
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Neal Obermeyer (born March 12, 1978) is an editorial cartoonist for the Lincoln Journal-Star, the San Diego Reader, and the Omaha Reader. He currently resides in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
Early life
Obermeyer was born in Auburn, Nebraska. He was raised on a farm around Auburn. During his time there he was very active in many extra-curricular activities, but most notably for Cross Country and Journalism. He graduated from Auburn High School as Valedictorian of the class of 1996.
It was during this time that he began his first cartoon serial, "The Adventures of Planarian Man," which was published in the Auburn Press-Tribune.
He later went on to the
Career
Obermeyer has been an editorial cartoonist since 1999.1 He started at the
In the summer of 2004, he began to work on the
He also has contributed to HappyYoungPeople.com.
Slant
Though raised in Nebraska, which leans extremely
.In the San Diego Reader, he tends to focus more on local government corruption and oddities.
Obermeyer also has a few trademarks:
- Former Lincoln mayor Coleen Seng is always in a flowered dress or a flowered top.
- Former councilman Ken Svoboda is always pictured as Magnum, P.I.
- The State Capital is always talking when representing the unicamerallegislature's decision making.
- When former Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman was noncommittal or had no comment on a given issue, a smoking monkey[1] would be depicted standing on a stool and hanging a sign naming that issue. On the floor underneath the sign was a pile of old signs listing prior issues the governor was noncommittal on.
Other interests
He also has dabbled in other projects. He has done editorial projects, such as "Neal Obermeyer Is All out of Bubblegum" with the "Switch" section3 of the Lincoln Journal-Star, which was closely linked to "Ground Zero", published by the Journal Star. He also did a series called "The Bearded Odyssey" with the Daily Nebraskan.
He likes to work with music and video. His biggest contribution in this area was working at KRNU and created the show, "You are so Beautiful, Beautiful Robot". Most of this show is dedicated to electronic music or electronic elements in music. Neal hosts this show through a
He has also made four documentaries with one in post-production. The subjects of these documentaries range from a man who lived in his van to Nebraska's version of bigfoot legends. Currently he is working on a documentary on real-life superheroes.
Notes
1 www.nealo.com [1]
2 www.nytimes.com [2]
3 www.cheeksofgod.com Neal's site [3]