Matt Bors

Originally from Canton, Ohio, Bors attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where he first began drawing editorial cartoons for the student newspaper. At 23, his work became syndicated by Universal Features, making him the youngest syndicated cartoonist in the country at that time. His work has since appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Village Voice, The Daily Beast, and on Daily Kos. In 2012, US Congressman John Larson used one of Bors's cartoons during a house floor on the Affordable Care Act.

His first graphic novel, War Is Boring, a collaboration with journalist David Axe, was published in 2010 by New American Library.

In September 2013, Bors began working in a full-time capacity as a cartoonist, writer and comics editor of The Nib at Medium. In July 2015 Bors left Medium. In February 2016 First Look Media announced that they had acquired The Nib and would be collaborating with Bors to relaunch the site. Under First Look Media, The Nib launched two seasons of online political animation and a quarterly print magazine, which won numerous comics industry awards including the Ignatz and Eisner. The Nib went fully independent in 2019, as First Look Media cut funding to its publications.

In April 2021, Bors announced that he was retiring from editorial cartooning in order to focus more on other comics work. He subsequently closed The Nib in 2023, citing costs.

Bors subsequently moved into writing monthly comics, launching the creator-owned title Justice Warriors in 2022 with co-writer and artist Ben Clarkson. In 2024, he became the writer of a new Toxic Avenger series, which led to the ongoing title Toxic Avenger Comics as well as a reviving the Toxic Crusaders as a separate miniseries.

Bors lived in Portland, Oregon from 2008 until 2020, when he announced that he would soon be moving to Ontario, Canada.