Nate Creekmore (born October 14, 1982, in

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) is an American

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. Nate is a two-time winner of the

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Cartoonist of the Year and an

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award for achievement in college cartooning for Nate's strip ''

Maintaining ''Maintaining'' is a 2007-2009 comic strip by cartoonist Nate Creekmore. Creekmore is a two-time winner of the Scripps College Cartoonist of the Year and an Associated Press award for achievement in college cartooning. Creekmore's strip first ap ...

'' which appeared in the newspaper ''The Babbler'' at

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. In May 2007, ''Maintaining'', with

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, became nationally syndicated. Universal Press Syndicate offered Creekmore a stipend to spend the next year developing his comic strip which led to its spread across the United States.

Career

Creekmore embraced the way people would deal with his racial background: he found it to be funny and almost amusing.

Maintaining

Creekmore created his entertaining comic strip, "Maintaining" because it shows what it means to be :"biracial in a society that prefers its people be uniracial". Creekmore wants his comic to give a different perspective on mixed-race people. Marcus, the main character in Maintaining, is biracial and goes by the term Halfrican-American and the comic is mostly based on Creekmore's own personal experiences.

References

External links

Nate Creekmore website

Maintaining
on

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1982 births Living people Artists from Omaha, Nebraska Lipscomb University alumni American comic strip cartoonists {{US-cartoonist-stub