Charles Apple

Fred Matamoros has left the Tacoma, Wash., News Tribune in order to join SB Magazine, a city magazine that covers Shreveport and Bossier City, La.

Fred will be SB Magazine’s creative director starting Monday. His last day at the News Tribune was a week ago today, he tells us.

Fred writes:

The family is very excited about the move. It’s sort of a return home. My wife was born there, as was our daughter. I worked at the Times in Shreveport in the early nineties.

A 1985 graduate of Woodbury University in Burbank, Calif., Fred spent four years as a designer and art director for a major L.A. ad agency before becoming a staff artist for the Daily Breeze in Torrance, Calif. He spent three years as assistant graphics editor of the Shreveport (La.) Times and five-and-a-half years as graphics editor of the Olympian in Olymbia, Wash., before moving up the road to Tacoma in 1999 as an artist and illustrator.

A few samples of Fred’s work:

Find more on his personal web site.

Fred writes:

If you can, please let our many friends know that the News Tribune is searching for a newsroom artist.

Find the want ad here.

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