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Howie Schneider (1930-2007) was an award-winning cartoonist, sculptor and children's book author. He was the creator of the nationally syndicated comic strip "Eek and Meek," which appeared for 35 years in more than 400 newspapers through Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schneider later created The Sunshine Club in 2003 and continued until his death. He was also a magazine cartoonist whose work was published in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, Redbook, McCall's and many other publications. He was editorial cartoonist for the Provincetown (MA) Banner, an award-winning weekly newspaper, and he twice won the award for Best Editorial Cartoon from the New England Press Association.
Schneider co-authored and illustrated Amos: The Story of an Old Dog and His Couch, The Amazing Amos, Amos Ahoy! and Amos Camps Out (Little, Brown). He was illustrator of Blumpoe the Grumpoe Meets Arnold the Cat (Little, Brown); and author and illustrator of Uncle Lester's Hat, No Dogs Allowed (Putnam) and Chewy Louie (Rising Moon), now in its seventh printing. His cartoon books include Howie Schneider Unshucked (On Cape Publications), The World is No Place for Children, The Deceivers (Doubleday), and Mom's the Word (World). There are also three Eek and Meek collections (Pocket Books).
In addition to his cartooning, painting and publishing work, Schneider was an accomplished sculptor who worked in bronze, terra cotta and plaster and created likenesses of New Yorker cartoonist Mischa Richter, U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz, and many others. Schneider served 20 years on the board of the Newspaper Features Council and eight years on the board of the National Cartoonists Society. He passed away in 2007 at the age of 77.
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