Howard Adolph Schneider (April 24, 1930 – June 28, 2007), better known as Howie Schneider, was an award-winning
cartoonist
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,
sculptor
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and
children's book
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Children's ...
author who lived and worked in
. His best-known
comic strip
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, ''
Eek & Meek'', ran from 1965 to 2000 in more than 400 newspapers through
Newspaper Enterprise Association
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.
After ending ''Eek and Meek'', Schneider became the
editorial cartoon
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ist in a weekly cartoon called ''Unshucked'', for the ''Provincetown Banner'' in
Provincetown, Massachusetts
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.
On October 6, 2003, he launched a
daily
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and
Sunday strip
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, ''The Sunshine Club'', which looked at the issues of aging and was distributed by
United Feature Syndicate
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.
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Other strips of Schneider's included ''Percy's World'' and ''Bimbo's Circus'' (aka ''The Circus of P.T. Bimbo'').
/ref> His cartoons were published in numerous magazines, including ''The New Yorker
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'', ''Playboy
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K ...
'', ''Esquire
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'', ''Redbook
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'' and ''McCall's
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''.
Schneider served 20 years on the board of the Newspaper Features Council and eight years on the board of the National Cartoonists Society
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.
Awards
Schneider was a two-time winner of Best Editorial Cartoon from the New England Press Association.
Bibliography
* ''Wilky the White House cockroach'', (Putnam, 2006)
* ''Chewy Louie'' (Rising Moon, 2000)
* ''No Dogs Allowed'' (Putnam, 1995)
* ''Amos: The Story of an Old Dog and His Couch'' (Putnam, 1992)
* ''Howie Schneider Unshucked: A Cartoon Collection About the Cape the Country & Life Itself'' (On Cape Publications)
* ''The Circus of P. T. Bimbo'' (Grosset & Dunlap, 1976)
References
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1930 births
2007 deaths
American editorial cartoonists
American comic strip cartoonists
People from Provincetown, Massachusetts
People from Truro, Massachusetts