Matt Bors
CONTACT: National Headquarters, 212-809-8585
Life Without Fair Courts Illustration Contest
Third Place: "Future Courtroom Landmarks"
About the Artist
Matt Bors is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist born in Ohio and living in Portland. He has been drawing comics since childhood and moved into political cartooning in college.
His weekly cartoons appear in alternative weeklies across the country including the Village Voice, Cleveland Free Times and Chico Beat. He also creates comics for the ACLU's website and a biweekly strip called "War Is Boring" written by journalist and war correspondent David Axe.
Q & A with Matt Bors
What inspired you to want to create a comic about why fair and impartial courts matter to you?
With the way the Supreme Court is now, many of the things I put in my comic are almost fathomable. With the courts shift to the right it has shown how important the judicial branch is. Another "originalist" judge could spell doom for much of the progress we've made in the last 50 years.
What do you think is the most important LGBT and/or HIV issue that the courts are dealing with today or in the near future?
Striking down laws prohibiting adoption by gay parents.
