“I’ve all the time wished to fulfill Nate Neal! I imply, he simply will get me.”

That’s what the girl seated subsequent to me at a current convention mentioned when she discovered I work for AdExchanger.

Because the artist of AdExchanger’s weekly comedian for greater than 13 years, Nate’s playful fashion, creativity, humor – and hilariously on-point Easter eggs – had been completely suited to our droll, typically mischievous (however all the time incisive) method to protecting the information.

Enjoyable reality: Nate began freelancing for AdExchanger in 2010 after making a reference to our founder, John Ebbert, on Craigslist, again when John was working AdExchanger out of a small condo on the Decrease East Aspect.

Now Nate, the creator of AdExchanger Man and AdExchanger Lady, has hung up his cape to give attention to his personal initiatives and different work. He’ll be sorely missed, however fear not: Our weekly comedian will proceed.

We’ve been auditioning a small group of very proficient artists to search out The One. For the following 5 weeks, we’ll be publishing a comic book created by certainly one of our finalists each Friday. Right here’s the primary one. Tell us what you suppose!

Within the meantime, I requested our editorial group and AdExchanger veterans to share their favourite Nate Neal creations from over time. Please take pleasure in.

Information Leakage (Aug. 26, 2010)

Clear up The Puzzle (Sept. 23, 2010)

The Nice On-line Privateness Battle (Dec. 9, 2010)

Below The RTB Tree (Dec. 16, 2010)

Adtechophobia (April 15, 2011)

A Writer’s Nightmare (June 10, 2011)

John Ebbert, founder, AdExchanger: “This was a humorous one. It was Doug Weaver’s phrase … we gave him credit score (see the initials over the door).”

Fraud At this time (Might 9, 2014)

Search Your Emotions… (Dec. 18, 2015)

Summer time Fridays (July 21, 2017)

Zach Rodgers, former govt editor, AdExchanger: “Feels as apropos in the present day because it did when Nate drew it 5 years in the past.”

This one options our personal govt editor, Sarah Sluis, and her son Arthur.

“I’m afraid I can’t do this, Dave” (March 12, 2021)

Zach Rodgers: “A few of my favourite Nate Neal comics reinterpret iconic film moments and different popular culture touchstones. This one is each humorous and chilling!”