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Howard Adolph Schneider (April 24, 1930 – June 28, 2007), better known as Howie Schneider, was an award-winning
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,
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and
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author who lived and worked in
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. His best-known
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, '' Eek & Meek'', ran from 1965 to 2000 in more than 400 newspapers through
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. After ending ''Eek and Meek'', Schneider became the
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ist in a weekly cartoon called ''Unshucked'', for the ''Provincetown Banner'' in
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. On October 6, 2003, he launched a daily and
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, ''The Sunshine Club'', which looked at the issues of aging and was distributed by
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.The Sunshine Club by Howie Schneider, United Features.Toonopedia
/ref> 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 ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. Schneider served 20 years on the board of the Newspaper Features Council and eight years on the board of the
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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) * ''Eek and Meek'' (1969) (ASIN B000I16GW2) * ''Mom's the Word'' (World, 1968) (ASIN B0020JS2N6) * ''The Deceivers'' (Doubleday, 1961) (ASIN B0007ENUTC)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schneider, Howie 1930 births 2007 deaths American editorial cartoonists American magazine cartoonists American comic strip cartoonists 20th-century American sculptors American children's writers American children's book illustrators The New Yorker cartoonists People from Provincetown, Massachusetts People from Truro, Massachusetts