Howie Schneider
{{short description|American cartoonist, sculptor, and author, 1930-2007}}
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|birth_name = Howard Adolph Schneider
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|4|24|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Bronx, New York
| death_date = {{death date and age|2007|6|28|1930|4|24|mf=y}}
| death_place = Truro, Massachusetts
| occupation = Cartoonist, writer, illustrator, sculptor
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| notableworks = Eek & Meek
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Howard Adolph Schneider (April 24, 1930 – June 28, 2007), better known as Howie Schneider, was an award-winning cartoonist, sculptor and children's book author who lived and worked in Massachusetts. His best-known comic strip, Eek & Meek, ran from 1965 to 2000 in more than 400 newspapers through Newspaper Enterprise Association.
After ending Eek and Meek, Schneider became the editorial cartoonist in a weekly cartoon called Unshucked, for the Provincetown Banner in Provincetown, Massachusetts.[http://www.provincetownbanner.com/article/banner_daily_update_article/_/48989/Banner_Daily_Update/6/28/2007 Provincetown Banner]
On October 6, 2003, he launched a daily and Sunday strip, The Sunshine Club, which looked at the issues of aging and was distributed by United Feature Syndicate.The Sunshine Club by Howie Schneider, United Features.[http://www.toonopedia.com/eek_meek.htm Toonopedia]
Other strips of Schneider's included Percy's World and Bimbo's Circus (aka The Circus of P.T. Bimbo).[http://lambiek.net/artists/s/schneider_h.htm Comiclopedia: Howie Schneider] His cartoons were published in numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, Redbook and McCall's.
Schneider served 20 years on the board of the Newspaper Features Council and eight years on the board of the National Cartoonists Society.
Awards
Bibliography
- Wilky the White House cockroach, (Putnam, 2006){{cite book|last=Schneider|first=Howie|title=Wilky the White House cockroach|year=2006|publisher=Putnam|location=New York|isbn=978-0399243882}}
- Chewy Louie (Rising Moon, 2000){{cite book|last=Schneider|first=Howie|title=Life event kit.|year=2007|publisher=Rising Moon|location=Flagstaff, AZ|isbn=9780873587655|edition=1st|url=https://archive.org/details/chewylouie00schn}}
- No Dogs Allowed (Putnam, 1995){{cite book|last=Schneider|first=written by Howie|title=No dogs allowed|year=1995|publisher=Putnam's|location=New York|isbn=978-0399226120|edition=1996|url=https://archive.org/details/nodogsallowed00schn_uqg}}
- Amos: The Story of an Old Dog and His Couch (Putnam, 1992){{cite book|last=Schneider|first=Susan Seligson ; illustrated by H.|title=Amos : Story of an Old Dog and His Couch|year=1992|publisher=Little, Brown|location=Boston|isbn=9780316780346|edition=New|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/amosstoryofolddo00susa}}
- Howie Schneider Unshucked: A Cartoon Collection About the Cape the Country & Life Itself (On Cape Publications){{cite book|last=Schneider|first=Howie|title=Howie Schneider unshucked : a cartoon collection about the Cape, the country and life itself|year=2002|publisher=On Cape Publications|location=Yarmouth Port, Mass.|isbn=978-0965328395}}
- The Circus of P. T. Bimbo (Grosset & Dunlap, 1976){{cite book|last=Schneider|first=Howie|title=P.T. Bimbo|year=1976|publisher=Grosset & Dunlap|location=New York|isbn=044812212X}}
- Eek and Meek (1969) (ASIN B000I16GW2)
- Mom's the Word (World, 1968) (ASIN B0020JS2N6)
- The Deceivers (Doubleday, 1961) (ASIN B0007ENUTC)
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Category:American editorial cartoonists
Category:American magazine cartoonists
Category:American comic strip cartoonists
Category:20th-century American sculptors
Category:American children's writers
Category:American children's book illustrators
Category:The New Yorker cartoonists