Charley Krebs is also currently the cartoonist for Chicago Jazz Magazine. He had a career retrospective art show at the Riverside Arts Center in the Summer of 2008 and a Jazz Fest cartoon show at Reggie's Music Joint in the Autumn  of the same year. He's had a thirty-year run as political cartoonist for the Berwyn LIFE/Suburban LIFE Newspaper family (now Gatehouse Media), and is a nine-time Illinois Press Association award-winner for Political Cartooning. He's also a seven-time winner of national journalism cartooning awards.