Cartoonist/artist formerly known as Ken Weiner whose work saw print in Screw magazine, Weirdo, Comical Funnies, Punk and Stop!. Alongside Peter Bagge he published "The Wacky World of Ken Weiner and Peter Bagge" in 1982. After moving to Minneapolis in 1986 he changed his name to Ken Avidor. Among the work he's known for since then include the Roadkill Bill strip and the graphic novel series Bicyclopolis.

Involved in the Underground and Independent comic scenes. Created the Comix World and Comix Wave newsletters. Writer/artist on mini comics in the late 1970s to the 1980s. Died from liver cancer.

Lucho Olivera learned painting and drawing from Rubén Vispo. He moved to Buenos Aires at age 20 and began his career drawing for Vea y Lea and Leoplán. He also enrolled at the Pan-American School of Art, while making cover illustrations for Hora Cero and Frontera. In 1964, he commenced his career as a full time comics artist by contributing to Misterix and to the publishing house Columba. He was the first artist to draw the 'Nippur de Lagash' series, written by Robin Wood, that appeared in D'Artagnan magazine from 1967. Other notable creations were 'Gilgamesh' (1970) and 'Gunner' ('Dico, o Artilheiro'). He also created 'Galaxia Cero', 'Yo Ciborg', 'Ronar' and 'Planeta Rojo'. In the 1990s he drew a newspaper comic strip called 'Pepe Moreno'.

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Born in Japan, raised in Hawaii and later settled on the continental USA.

Schultze was an American newspaper cartoonist best known for his popular Foxy Grandpa comic strip series. He drew the strip under the pseudonym Bunny, his childhood nickname. The Bunny signature was usually accompanied by a drawing of a rabbit.

His Foxy Grandpa comic strip was first published in January 1900 in the New York Herald, moving to the New York American in 1902. By 1913, Schultze was president of the Bunny Amusement Corporation of New York. The strip disappeared as a regular feature in 1918.

Personal problems and debts plagued Schultze through the 1920s. He resurfaced in 1935, illustrating school books, including the popular Julia and the Bear. During the 1930s, he was a Works Progress Administration worker. He died of a heart attack in 1939.

Additional biography found at:
Squa Tront (John Benson, 1977 Series) #9 (1983).

Wessler did gag cartoons circa 1932 for the Calgary Eye-Opener [magazine] (Bob Edwards Publishing Corporation, 1902? series).

Michael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist and short story writer who has worked on a number of comics and genres related projects.

Worked for many years at Eisner's PS Magazine.

Bud Thompson was born Bernard Thompson and worked in comic strips, cartoons, and comic books under several names and aliases. His work in comic strips ran from 1931 to 1943 and in comic books on and off from about 1942 to about 1955.

Under his Bernard Thompson name, Bud did cartoons from the 1940s until the 1960s.

Thompson emigrated with his family to the United States from England via Montreal, Canada sometime in July 1911. The family settled in Hennepin, Minnesota per the 1920 census, and eventually moved to St. Louis Park, Hennepin County, Minnesota where Thompson was raised. Thompson would marry Evelyn "Ev" Syverson before 1930. By 1937, the Thompsons were living in Hollywood, California in the house of the late magician Harry Houdini. At the time of his death, Thompson was living in Savannah, Georgia.