Michael Fry is an American
cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...
, online media entrepreneur, and screenwriter. He is best known for the syndicated
comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st ...
s ''
Committed'' and ''
Over the Hedge'', the latter of which is a collaboration with
T. Lewis
T is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet. (For the same letterform in the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, see Te and Tau respectively).
T may also refer to:
Codes and units
* T, Tera- as in one trillion
* T, the symbol for "True" in lo ...
. ''Over the Hedge'' was nominated for best newspaper strip by the
National Cartoonists Society
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the ...
in 2006.
Fry was also President of
RingTales, an online media company. RingTales's Animated New Yorker Cartoons were nominated for a
Webby Award in 2008.
Fry started cartooning professionally at ''The Houston Post'' with the local daily comic strip, ''Scotty''. His work has appeared in ''Playboy'', ''Good Housekeeping'', ''The Texas Observer'', and many other publications.
Fry is the author and illustrator of the middle-grade illustrated novel series "The Odd Squad" for Disney-Hyperion. Three books were released in 2013/2014: ''The Odd Squad: Bully Bait'', ''The Odd Squad: Zero Tolerance'', and ''The Odd Squad: King Karl''.
References
External links
*http://overthehedgeblog.wordpress.com
*https://www.facebook.com/over-the-hedge
*https://www.facebook.com/OddSquadBooks
1959 births
Living people
Artists from Houston
American comic strip cartoonists
American editorial cartoonists
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