Margaret Shulock (September 27, 1949 – October 17, 2021) was an American cartoonist who worked as a writer-artist on several features. Born in

Canastota, New York Canastota is a village within the town of Lenox in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 4,556 at the 2020 census, down from 4,804 in 2010. The village was incorporated in 1835, but was reorganized in 1870. Located along ...

, as Margaret Ackerman, she lived in Franklinville, Buffalo, and

Friendship, New York Friendship is a town in Allegany County, New York, United States. The population was 1,960 at the 2020 census. The town's name was adopted to mark the resolution of earlier conflicts. Friendship is near the center of Allegany County and is nort ...

. She began sending weekly, hand-drawn postcards to her parents, often in the form of cartoons. In 1995, these cartoons became ''Sticks'', a self-published calendar and a twice-weekly single-panel cartoon in the ''

Olean Times Herald The ''Olean Times Herald'' is a daily newspaper serving the western Twin Tiers region, based in Olean, New York, United States. The afternoon newspaper, one of the few remaining afternoon papers in the nation, is published by Bradford Publishin ...

''.About ''Six Chix''
/ref> From January 2000 until her retirement in March 2017, Shulock was a once-a-week cartoonist for the ensemble comic '' Six Chix'', a collaborative comic strip that debuted in January 2000 and is syndicated in over 120 newspapers. It is drawn by six female cartoonists who rotate the drawing duties through the week. During her tenure on ''Six Chix'', Shulock wrote and drew the strip each Tuesday and also every sixth Sunday. Shulock also scripted (but did not draw) the daily continuity strip ''

Apartment 3-G ''Apartment 3-G'' is an American newspaper soap opera comic strip about a trio of career women who share an apartment in Manhattan. Created by Nicholas P. Dallis with art by Alex Kotzky, the strip began May 8, 1961, initially distributed by t ...

'' from 2007 until its cancellation in November 2015, and around the same time was an uncredited contributing gag writer to the long-running comic ''

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith ''Barney Google and Snuffy Smith'', originally ''Take Barney Google, for Instance'', is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Billy DeBeck. Since its debut on June 17, 1919, the strip has gained a large international readership, appeari ...

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