On January 17, 2016, some of the world’s top cartoonists are setting sail from Orlando, Florida, on a week-long Caribbean Cruise … and we’d love you to join us onboard!

We have an incredible array of speakers and events lined up. It’s a chance to meet and mingle with these superstar artists, attend seminars and shows, get sketches and autographs … and just have an absolute blast on an unforgettable vacation!
Meet the creators of such world-famous comic strips as ZITS, BABY BLUES, FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE and THE FAMILY CIRCUS … meet the artists who bring you THE SIMPSONS, FUTURAMA, THE MINIONS and some of your favorite Greetings Cards … take a caricature class with MAD MAGAZINE’s TV and movie parody maestro … and cheer (or jeer) the brilliant viewpoints of Editorial Cartooning’s most acclaimed artists!

Learn more about this incredible event … and then go to www.ncscruise.com
to book the vacation of a lifetime!

Jim Borgman

“Zits” comic strip
Jim Borgman satirized politicians and newsmakers as the editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer for 32 years. And as co-creator (with Jerry Scott) of the comic strip Zits, Borgman’s work now reaches every corner of the globe.

Borgman was hired to begin as the Enquirer’s daily cartoonist one week after graduation from Kenyon College. As a result he became, he says, “the first Kenyon art major ever to repay his student loan.”

Over the course of his editorial cartooning career Borgman won every major award in his field, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1991. Perhaps most meaningfully, Borgman’s fellow cartoonists voted him Best Editorial Cartoonist in America five times. In 1993, the NCS awarded Borgman their highest honor, the Reuben Award, for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.

In the summer of 1996 Jim Borgman teamed up with Jerry Scott to create Zits, the popular comic strip chronicling the life of teenager Jeremy Duncan and his long-suffering parents. Today Zits appears in over 1,700 newspapers in 45 countries and 15 languages around the world.

Over the course of his career Jim Borgman’s original drawings have hung in the Smithsonian, the National Archives and the White House bathroom. He is proudest of having once dogsledded across northern Alaska. Borgman lives in Colorado with his wife Suzanne Soled, having survived the Zits years with their five teenagers.

Lynn Johnston

“For Better or Worse” comic strip
Lynn Johnston was born in Collingwood, Ontario and grew up in British Columbia. Today she lives in Corbeil, Ontario. Johnston is the first woman to receive a Rueben Award for Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonist Society in 1985. She has also received the Order of Canada and claims a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame.

It takes a keen eye to recognize life’s shared experiences and an even keener intellect to assemble those moments into a humorous and heartfelt way. With For Better or For Worse, Johnston elevates everyday aspects of life into brilliant observations on personal career goals, parenting choices, and coffee klatch friendships.

For Better or For Worse has been syndicated since 1979 and was named Best Syndicated Comic Strip in 1992. For Better or For Worse appears in more than 2,000 newspapers in 23 countries, and is translated into 8 languages for a devoted readership of more than 220 million.

Jeff Keane

“Family Circus”, comic
Jeff was born in 1958. Two years later, his father Bil Keane started chasing him around begging him to do something funny. So began his career as a cartoon model for “The Family Circus.” He now creates that comic, which appears daily in over 1,400 newspapers worldwide, making it the most widely syndicated panel in America today.

Raised in Arizona, Keane moved to California to attend the University of Southern California where in 1980 he received his BFA in Drama. After graduation, in an attempt to have a freer schedule for auditions, etc., he returned to his cartoon roots and began to assist on the feature. Jeff started out just answering mail and compiling books but, through years of his father’s guidance, took over the feature and is responsible for all aspects of producing the daily cartoon (writing, penciling, inking, coloring).

In 2007 Keane was elected President of the National Cartoonists Society. He was re-elected in 2009. Along with a group of his NCS colleagues, Keane has done numerous trips with the USO visiting our troops in hospitals and military bases throughout the world (including both Iraq and Afghanistan).

Jeff and his wife Melinda live in Laguna Hills where they created three cartoon characters of their own (Spencer, Matilda and Olivia). Keane now chases his kids around begging them to do something funny. So “The Family Circus” keeps going around in circles.

Rick Kirkman

“Baby Blues” comic strip
Rick Kirkman was born a poor cartoonist in a log cabin drawn in poor perspective…actually, in North Carolina. He was an Air Force Brat, attending 10 schools in 12 years. Rick’s professional career began in junior high, drawing a parody of Mad Magazine and, having only one copy, charged his friends to read it—until their parents found out and demanded refunds.

Rick was heavily influenced by Sparky Schulz (Peanuts) and Mad Magazine. He met Jerry Scott in the mid-70s during Rick’s Gag Cartooning Period. Rick and Jerry fantasized about doing a syndicated comic strip together while drawing Yellow Pages ads. Rick married the lovely and talented Sukey in 1979. He spent years as an ad agency art director, freelance graphic designer and humorous illustrator before becoming syndicated with Baby Blues.

Months of sleep deprivation after Sukey gave birth to a small, crying person (their second) resulted in the creation of the comic strip, Baby Blues. Jerry writes, Rick draws. Baby Blues was released by Creators Syndicate in 1990, and is now syndicated by King Features Syndicate in over 1200 newspapers worldwide with over 40 anthologies in print. Baby Blues TV series appeared on the WB Network briefly, and can still be seen occasionally on Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network. Rick received a Reuben award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, 2012.

Rick lives in the Phoenix area with his family and more cats and dogs than you can shake a stick at. He plays drums, guitar, swims with the dogs, brags about his kids and answers Mac tech support questions in his spare time.

Mike Luckovich

Pulitzer-winning Editorial Cartoonist
Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Constitution received two amazing honors in 2006, winning both a Pulitzer Prize and the Reuben award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. This was the second Pulitzer for Luckovich; his first was awarded in 1995. He had previously received the Reuben award for Editorial Cartooning in 2001, but this was his first time to be named the overall outstanding cartoonist by a group of his peers. The Reuben awards are distributed each year by the National Cartoonists Society and are considered professional cartooning’s highest honor.

Impressive as these achievements are, they are only the latest in a long line of awards for Luckovich. He was a runner-up for the Pulitzer in 1987 before garnering the 1995 win. In 1989, he won the Overseas Press Club’s award for the “Best Cartoons on Foreign Affairs for 1989,” and in 1991, he was awarded the National Headliners award for editorial cartoonists. In 1994, a Luckovich cartoon was selected by voters in a Newsweek magazine poll as one of the four best editorial cartoons of the year.

After freelancing and selling life insurance to make ends meet following his graduation from the University of Washington in 1982, Luckovich landed his first cartooning job at the Greenville News in South Carolina. After nine months at the News, Luckovich was hired by The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, where he stayed for four years before moving on to Atlanta.

Luckovich’s cartoons, syndicated nationally by Creators Syndicate, appear in more than 350 daily publications, including The Washington Post, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Denver Post, Newsday, New York Post, The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, The Dallas Morning News, the Boston Globe, the Seattle Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Nashville Tennessean and the Houston Chronicle, and are reprinted regularly in Time, Newsweek and the New York Times.

Luckovich and his wife, Margo, have four children. His hobbies include exercising and collecting unique ties.

Steve McGarry

“BiographiC’ and “Kid Town” comic strips | Minions movie story artist
A two-term former President of the National Cartoonists Society, Steve is the current President of the National Cartoonists Society Foundation, the charitable arm of the NCS. He received the prestigious NCS Silver T-Square Award in 2012 for his “outstanding service to the profession.”

Having designed record sleeves for a number of new wave luminaries in his native England, including Joy Division and John Cooper Clarke, Steve McGarry became one of Britain’s most successful newspaper and magazine illustrators in the 1980s, before creating the long-running comic strip “Badlands” for Britain’s biggest-selling daily newspaper, The Sun, in 1989. Later that same year, after signing his first US syndication contract, he relocated with his young family to California.

His sports and entertainment features, including the syndicated strips “Biographic,” “Kid Town and “Trivquiz,” appear in newspapers worldwide, from the New York Daily News to the South China Morning Post, and Steve’s magazine clients include SI For Kids, FHM and a host of European sports and teen magazines. Six times nominated for a Silver Reuben, he was the first artist in history to receive Illustrator of the Year Awards from both the National Cartoonists Society and the Australian Cartoonists Association. He has also recently ventured into the world of animation, most notably working on “Despicable Me 2” and “The Minions” and was a story artist on the “Minions Paradise” game from EA Games.

He lives in Huntington Beach, California, with his wife, Debs, who is the colorist on the hugely popular cartoon strip Baby Blues. Their twin sons, Joe and Luke, are award-winning artists in their own right and also form the Los Angeles indie music group Pop Noir.

Bill Morrison

“The Simpsons” and “Futurama”
Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Bill Morrison began his career in Detroit Michigan as a technical illustrator, but his dream was to be a cartoonist. When Bill decided that he had rendered his last diesel fuel pump, he moved to Southern California with his wife, Kayre.

He began working immediately in motion picture advertising where he painted dozens of movie posters, including many for Walt Disney Pictures, such as The Little Mermaid, Bambi, Peter Pan, Cinderella, and The Jungle Book.

For the past several years Bill has spent most of his waking hours on various projects related to The Simpsons. For that iconic property he has created thousands of drawings for T-shirts, video games, posters, toy packaging, books, calendars, limited edition prints, etc.

When The Simpsons creator Matt Groening founded Bongo Comics, Bill was hired on as art director and realized his cartoonist dreams when he drew the very first Simpsons comic. He quickly took on the role of Creative Director, editing Bongo’s entire output, and writing and drawing stories and covers as time permitted. Bill also worked with Groening on early character designs for the TV show Futurama and served as the series art director.

In addition to his work on The Simpsons and Futurama, Bill has written and drawn his own comic book series; the four-time Eisner Award-nominated Roswell, Little Green Man and co-created two other comic book series, Heroes Anonymous and Lady Robotika (the latter with Jane Wiedlin of the legendary all-girl rock band, The Go-Go’s).

Presently, Bill is still tending to Bongo business while also working on an ongoing series of limited edition Disney art prints published by ACME Animation Archives, writing and drawing his new series “Dead Vengeance” for Dark Horse Comics, and serving as the current President of the National Cartoonists Society.

Mike Peters

Pulitzer-winning Editorial Cartoonist | “Grimmy” comic strip
Mike Peters is recognized as one of our nation’s most prominent cartoon artists for his outstanding work as both a political and comic strip cartoonist. His favorite expression WHAT A HOOT certainly sums up his outlook on his life and work which are inexorably entwined. Mike’s warm, easygoing and zany demeanor is evidence that his personality matches his creative talents. As so eloquently phrased by a colleague — “Mike is the Peter Pan of the cartooning world; he’s boyishly charming, good with a rapier and doesn’t spend a lot of time on the ground. And he doesn’t seem to want to grow up”.

Mike has been interested in cartooning, and particularly political cartooning, since childhood. Born October 9, 1943, Mike was educated in his birthplace of St. Louis, MO, where he graduated from Christian Brothers College High School in 1961. In 1965 he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington University and immediately began his career on the art staff of the Chicago Daily News. The following year he began two years of service with the U.S. Army as an artist for the Seventh Psychological Operations Group in Okinawa. After Vietnam, his mentor, the renowned W.W. II artist Bill Mauldin, helped him find a cartooning position on the Dayton Daily News in 1969. That was the beginning. In 1972, his editorial cartoons became syndicated nationally. In 1981 Mike was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Journalism and in 1984 the award-winning Mother Goose & Grimm comic strip was born — all with the help of Marian, his wife, best friend and business partner of 35 years.

Mike’s humor appeals to all age groups and all nationalities. His work is syndicated in newspapers worldwide and frequently appears in national publications and on national television. He has become familiar to thousands through his many appearances on shows such as Good Morning America, The Joan Rivers Show, The Today Show, Equal Time, MSNBC, CNNFN and C-SPAN. Peters is also a popular lecturer and makes appearances at editor and publisher conventions, on the college lecture circuit and before political groups. The University of Dayton awarded Mike with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree in 1998.

Mike’s political cartoons, syndicated by King Features Syndicate, appear in over 400 newspapers worldwide. His political work is featured frequently in such publications as Newsweek, Time, U.S. News and World Report, and The New Republic (several of which have also featured him in articles about political cartoonists). Peters is particularly proud of his animated editorial cartoons, “Peters Postscripts” which aired on NBC’s Nightly News in 1981. It was the first time animated editorial cartoons appeared regularly on a prime-time network news program. Peters also has done a 14-part interview series, The World of Cartooning with Mike Peters, for PBS.

Mother Goose & Grimm appears in over 800 newspapers worldwide and consistently places in the top 10 most popular ratings. Licensees distribute Grimmy products all over the world, and the Grimmy TV show continues to air in several countries. Grimmy is also on the internet at www.grimmy.com receiving over 5,000 visits a day. Mother Goose & Grimm is included in the Toon Lagoon theme park at Universal Studios that opened in July 1999.

When time allows, Mike’s passion for storyboarding animation blossoms creations such as “Night of the Living Fred” for Steven Spielberg’s Dreamwork’s team (1998).

Mike is on the Board of Trustees for the International Museum of Cartoon Art in Boca Raton, FL, the Board of Advocates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and is a member of the National Cartoonists Society. He is a member of the Defense Orientation Conference Association, a civilian group formed by the Defense Department which is dedicated to the understanding and studying of national security on an unclassified basis at all levels. He is also an Honorary Member of the American Association of Therapeutic Humor based in St. Louis, MO.

Books: Mike Peters’ political cartoon books include The Nixon Chronicles (1976), Clones, You Idiot, I Said Clones (1978), Win One for the Geezer (1982), The World of Cartooning with Mike Peters: How Caricatures Develop (1985), The Gang of Eight (1985), On the Brink (1987), and Happy Days Are Here Again (1991).

The first book of Mike’s collected comic strips was simply titled: Mother Goose and Grimm, and was published in 1986. Subsequent volumes include The Portable Mother Goose and Grimm (1987), Oh God, It’s Grimm (1987), Steel Belted Grimm (1988), Four Wheel Grimmy (1989), Grimmy Come Home (1990), It’s Grimmy (1990), Grimmy: Best In Show (1990), Grimmy: Pick of the Litter (1990), Grimmy: Night of the Living Vacuum (1991), Grimmy: Top Dog (1991), Grimmy and the Temple of Groom (1992). TOR Books published his most recent collections Grimmy: The Postman Always Screams Twice (1996), Grimmy: Friends Don’t Let Friends Own Cats (1996), Grimmy: King of the Heap (1997), Grimmy: Good Dog, Bad Breath (1999), Grimmy: Always Stop & Smell the Hydrants (1999), Grimmy: Cats & Pancakes Stick to the Ceiling (1999), Grimmy: In a Class by Himself (1999), Grimmy: Mailmen Can’t Jump (1999), Grimmy: My Dad was a Boxer (1999), Grimmy: The Horrors of Global Worming (2000), Grimmy: The Revenge of Grimmzilla (2000), Grimmy: It’s a Dog Sniff Dog World (2000), Revenge of the Fireplugs (2001), Grimmy Goes Postal (2001), Grimmy’s Flea Circus (2001), Compost Happens (2001), Grimmy’s Cat Tails (2001), Grimmy: One Sick Puppy (2001) and The Mother Goose & Grimm Treasury: A 20 Year Collection (2005). Grimmy is also published in albums and comic books in France, Norway, Sweden and many other countries around the world.

Greeting Cards: Represented in both political and comic strip cards, nationally & internationally. In excess of 1, 200,000 Gibson Egreetings were sent in 1999.

TV Shows: In September 1991, Mike brought his popular Mother Goose & Grimm comic strip to television with a weekly Saturday morning animated series on CBS. The half-hour program featured all the established Mother Goose and Grimm characters plus a variety of zany new comic personalities. Riding on the heels of a successful first season, “Grimmy” remained the #1 cartoon show for its time slot. In 1992, “Grimmy” moved to the coveted 12:30 p.m. EST (11:30 a.m. PST) time period, targeting a wider audience base — teens and college kids. “Grimmy” now airs throughout the world.

“Peters Postscripts” aired on NBC’s Nightly News in 1981. It was the first time animated editorial cartoons appeared regularly on a prime-time network news program. “The World of Cartooning with Mike Peters” was a 14-part interview series, for PBS

“Night of the Living Fred” is a continuing 7-minute segment of a 30-minute animated show called “Toonsylvania.” The show takes place in middle America featuring the lovable Deadman family, a nuclear family of zombies, Deadgar, Stiffanie, Fred, Ashley and their dog. The show was produced by Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks team.

Appearances: Besides many local television appearances, Peters has also appeared on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Issues and Answers, Good Morning America, the CBS Morning News, The Joan Rivers Show, Equal Time, CBS This Morning, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, MSNBC, and CNNFN.

Mike has lectured and made appearances for The Inland Press, National Scholastic Press Association, The Smithsonian Associates, The Barrister’s and The Library of Congress. College appearances include Iowa State University, University of Alabama, West Virginia University, Washington University, Earlham College, Oberlin College, Alma College, Georgetown University, Harvard University and MIT.

Awards: His awards include the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Award for political cartooning (1975), ACLU-Ohio Award (1980), Pulitzer Prize (1981), Distinguished Alumni Award, Washington University (1981), Headliner Award (1983, 1988, 1993), WICI Headliner (1983, 1990), NCS Award for Editorial Cartooning (1983, 1984), NCS nomination for Cartoonist of the Year (1985), the Ohio Governor’s Award (1985), National Planned Parenthood “Maggie” (1985, 2000), Esquire’s Top 40 Achievers (1988), WICI Man of the Year (1988), Humane Society Man of the Year (1990), Cox Newspapers Citation (1988, 1990), the Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year (1992), Best of Cox – Editorial Cartooning (2001, 2003, 2004). In 1994 the Dayton Daily News celebrated Mike’s 25 years as their editorial cartoonist with a “Roast.” Many respected cartoonists gathered in Dayton for this spectacular event that entertained over 500 people including Senator Howard Metzenbaum and Senator John Glenn. The Governor of Ohio, George Voinovich, designated September 24, 1994 as “Mike Peters Day.” The University of Dayton awarded Mike with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree in 1998 and he was inducted into the Sigma Chi Hall of Fame in June, 2005.

Other awards include Ohio Associated Press (1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1988), three Overseas Press Citations, Overseas Press Award (1990), two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, two Cleveland Press Awards and two Cincinnati Press Awards. His cartoons are shown in numerous galleries across the country including the Chuck Jones Showrooms, the permanent collection of the Milton Caniff Library at Ohio State University, the Charles Schulz Museum and the Library of Congress (Washington D.C.).

Michael Ramirez

Two-time American Pulitzer Prize-winning Editorial Cartoonist
Michael Ramirez is a two-time winner of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1994 and 2008 and a three-time Sigma Delta Chi, Society of Professional Journalism Award winner. He is a Senior Editor and the editorial cartoonist for Investor’s Business Daily. Ramirez is a Lincoln Fellow, an honorary member of Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society, and has won almost every journalism award in addition to the prestigious UCI Medal from the University of California, Irvine and the 2005 National Journalism Award, the 2008 Fischetti Award and The H. L. Mencken Award and is the author of the new book, Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion.

In a world of textual information, Ramirez combines an encyclopedic knowledge of the news with a captivating drawing style to create consistently outstanding and highly incisive satirical cartoons. His commentary on everything from the economy and markets to politics and international affairs offers a unique perspective on today’s issues. They take a humorously insightful look at the world around us, making readers laugh while informing them on the issues of our times.

A regular contributor to USA Today and The Weekly Standard Magazine and formerly a regular guest on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS Television, Michael Ramirez’s work is seen world-wide with a distribution of over four hundred newspapers and magazines through Creators Syndicate. He has been on CNN, CNN International, Fox News Sunday, BBC Television, BBC Radio, NPR, the Michael Reagan show and is a highly acclaimed international speaker. The former editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times, his cartoons have been featured on CNN, Fox News, The Bill O’Reilly Show, and The Rush Limbaugh Show. His work can be seen in such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Post, Time Magazine, National Review and US News and World Report.

Tom Richmond

MAD Magazine

Tom Richmond has been getting in trouble for his caricatures since the third grade, but he had no idea all those hours of detention he spent for doing funny drawings of his teachers would end up being the focus of a successful career as a freelance illustrator.

Tom got his start in the art world doing caricatures at a theme park while working his way through college in the late 1980’s. Since then he’s become one of the most successful and sought after freelance humorous illustrators working today, doing work for newspaper, magazines, books, digital video games, television, film, advertising, product design and virtually every other venue a cartoonist can work in. His client list includes Marvel and DC Comics, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated Kids, GQ, Scholastic, General Mills, PepsiCo, Penthouse, Cracked, Time Digital, Hasbro, Warner Bros Animation, Cartoon Network, and many, many others.

Tom is best known as one of the new generation of artists at MAD Magazine, where he has become the principal illustrator of the magazines’ trademark movie and TV parodies since 2000. He was the first illustrator in the modern (non-comic book) era to do his TV and film parodies in full color, coinciding with MAD’s switch to a color format in 2001. He also contributed character design to the animated “MAD” show on the Cartoon Network, and has designed puppets for comedian/ventriloquist Jeff Dunham in addition to doing numerous illustrations for Dunham’s product line and apps.

In 2011, Tom literally “wrote the book” on drawing caricatures. His book, “The Mad Art of Caricature” has been described as the “caricature artist’s bible” and has gone through six printings since it’s debut.

Tom has been honored with several awards, including Caricaturist of the Year twice, in 1998 and 1999, by the International Society of Caricature Artists, and divisional “Silver Reuben” awards for Advertising Art in 2003, 2006 and 2007, and for Newspaper Illustration in 2009 from the National Cartoonists Society. In 2011 he was the honored by the NCS with the “Reuben Award” as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, arguably cartooning’s highest honor.

Tom works from a studio in his home near Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Jerry Scott

“Zits” and “Baby Blues” comic strips
Jerry Scott has become a superstar of the cartooning world. As Co-creator of Baby Blues and Zits, he is one of just four cartoonists in history to have two daily comics strips running in over a thousand newspapers each.

Born May 2, 1955 in South Bend, Indiana, he was first introduced to the newspaper business by delivering the South Bend Tribune from his bicycle over pre-dawn Indiana roads. “I was pulling down maybe three figures a year, but the real reward wasn’t the money. It was that I got to be the first person in my neighborhood to read the comics on Sunday mornings. By flashlight.”

Jerry started cartooning professionally in the mid-1970s by selling a cartoon to the Saturday Evening Post. In 1983 he took over the comic strip Nancy, which he continued to reinvent for 12 years. In 1988 he got together with longtime friend Rick Kirkman and started kicking ideas around for a new strip. The result was Baby Blues, which was released in syndication in 1990. Baby Blues currently runs in 1200 newspapers in 28 countries and 13 languages. There are 40 Baby Blues collection books in print, with well over a million copies sold.

In 1996 Jerry had an idea for a comic strip about a teenage boy, and along with the artistic genius of Jim Borgman, Zits was born. First syndicated in an impressive 200 newspapers, King Features now distributes Zits to over 1700 papers in 45 countries and 15 languages. Zits has been collected in 30 anthologies.

Scott has received numerous cartooning awards, including the National Cartoonists Society’s Best Comic Strip of the Year three times, the Adamson Statuette, Sweden’s highest comic honor, and Germany’s Max and Moritz Award for Best International Comic Strip. Jerry is proudest of receiving the Reuben Award in 2001 from the National Cartoonists Society as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.

Jerry lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his wife, Kim. They have two daughters, ages 14 and 22, from whom he tries to steal ideas daily.

Rick Stromoski

“Soup 2 Nutz” comic strip | Greetings Cards
Rick’s work appears in Magazines, Children’s and Humor books, National Advertising, Licensed Products and Network Television. His nationally syndicated newspaper comic strip, Soup to Nutz, appears in over 150 newspapers. He has been nominated for his illustration work by the National Cartoonists Society twelve times and has been awarded the Reuben Division Award for Best Artist on three occasions.

Rick has illustrated childrens books for Macmillan, Harcourt Brace, Candlewick Press, Macgraw-Hill, Random House, Scholastic, Golden Books, Contemporary Books, Irena Chalmers Publishing, Workman and Andrews Mcmeel.

Rick lives in the historic district of Suffield with his wife Danna, daughter Molly, along with their dog Lucy and fighting cats, Sox and Shoes.