| SERGIO ARAGONES has cartoonedfor MAD Magazine since1962, contributing an average of twenty-five drawings per month. His comic book Groo debuted in 1982. He won the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award in 1996. |
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| JIM BORGMAN teams with Jerry Scott to produce Zits, which began syndication by King Features in 1997. He is also editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer. |
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| LYNDA BARRY's nationally syndicated comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek has been reprinted in several books including The Greatest of Marlys. Her novel, The Good Times Are Killing Me, was adapted to a play produce off-Broadway. |
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| ELDON DEDINI has drawn cartoons for most major American magazines including The New Yorker (since 1950) and Playboy (since 1960). His work is collected in The Dedini Gallery and A Much, Much Better World. |
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| LYNN JOHNSTON began For Better or For Worse in 1979. Her comic strip is now published in more than 2,000 newspapers worldwide. Recently she has been working to make her characters "come to life" through animation, and twenty-three half-hour shows are completed. |
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| WILL EISNER is the creator of The Spirit. He is the author of numerous books including what has been called the first graphic novel, A Contract With God. He is the winner of numerous national and international awards including the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1998. |
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| BEN KATCHOR's work is published in the New York Press and the Forward. Since 1988 his comic strips Julius Knipl Real Estate Photographer and The Cardboard Valise have been syndicated in alternative newspapers and magazines throughout the United States. His most recent book is The Beauty Supply District. |
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| DAVID LEVINE has been the contributing caricaturist for the New York Review of Books since 1963, and his work appears widely in other publications such as Esquire, New York Times, Playboy, and New York. He is also a book illustrator and watercolorist. |
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| RICK KIRKMAN's personal family experiences were the inspiration for Baby Blues. The strip was syndicated in 1990 by King Features Syndicate. In 2000 an animated half-hour series based on the strip premiered on WB Network. |
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| PATRICK MCDONNELL began his comic strip Mutts in 1994. He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1999. He is the co-author (with Karen O'Connell and Georgia Riley de Havenon) of Krazy Kat: The Art of George Herriman. |
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| LEE LORENZ has cartooned for The New Yorker since 1958. He served as the magazine's cartoon editor from 1973 to 1997. His most recent books are The Essential George Booth and The World of William Steig. |
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| PATRICK OLIPHANT has been nationally and internationally syndicated since 1965. He is the winner of numerous awards including the 1965 Pulitzer Prize and the Premio Satira Politica of Italy. An exhibition of his editorial cartoons, prints, and sculptures was mounted by the Library of Congress in 1998. |
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| TRINA ROBBINS has been writing and drawing comics since the mid-1960s. She is a founding member of Wimmen's Comix Collective. Her most recent book is Nell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century. |
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| ROY PETERSON's editorial cartoons appear in the Vancouver Sun and Maclean's and are syndicated by Cartoonists & Writers Syndicate. He won the Grand Prize at the International Salon of Caricature in Montreal in 1973 and is a six-time winner of the National Newspaper Award. |
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| JERRY SCOTT creates Baby Blues with Rick Kirkman and Zits with Jim Borgman. Baby Blues won the National Cartoonists Society's Best Newspaper Comic Strip award in 1995, and Zits won the award in 1998 and 1999. |
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| JEFF SMITH founded Cartoon Books in 1991in order to publish Bone, the epic adventures of Fone Bone and his friends, now translated into more than fifteen languages. He has won many honors including eight Harvey Awards and nine Eisner Awards. |
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| REBECCA ZURIER is associate professor of History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Art of The Masses. |
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