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Rick Stromoski, Creator of 'Soup to Nutz'

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Rick Stromoski has earned several awards for his many creative endeavours. He won four Louie Awards for his exceptionally popular greeting card designs. (The Louie Awards are given annually by the Greeting Card Association to "recognize the best designs in the industry".) Rick also received the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben in 1995 and 1998 for the Greeting Card Division. Nominated 12 times by the NCS for his illustration work, he was honoured with the Division Award for Gag Cartoons in 1999. (In a separate area of his life, Rick won the Bronze Award in 2003 for his Reisling wine in the WineMaker International Amateur Wine Competition. He is certainly a man of variety.) *(2)

Even with such burgeoning talent and skill, things don't always go as planned for the cartooning professional. Rick and his good friend, cartoonist Steve McGarry - creator of Badlands and countless other cartoons - launched "Mullets" on November 24, 2003. It is a comic strip about "a pair of total idiots" whose defining style is, of course, mullet haircuts. Sadly, "Mullets" just hasn't taken off and it suffered cancellation on January 15, 2005.

But, let's get back to the good stuff. Rick Stromoski was recently elected President of the National Cartoonists Society. He will assume the two-year-term position from Steve McGarry at the annual Reuben Weekend on May 27 to 29, 2005, this year in Scottsdale, Arizona. *(3) Rick was already familiar with the NCS structure; Elected in 1997 to the NCS Board, Rick served as First Vice President and Membership Chairman. *(2)

The Stromoski family of Rick, wife Danna, daughter Molly, one dog and two cats make their home in Suffield, Connecticut. Congratulations, new Mr. NCS President, and Happy Anniversary on serving up five years of delicious Soup to Nutz!

Rick Stromoski's home site: http://www.stromoski.com/main.htm

Visit the daily Soup to Nutz: http://www.comics.com/comics/soup2nutz/

More about Rick Stromoski:

*(1) http://www.unitedfeatures.com/ufsapp/vie...

*(2) http://www.comics.com/comics/soup2nutz/h...

Rick Stromoski named NCS President: *(3) http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/...

Have a look at the "Mullets" comic strip: http://www.stevemcgarry.com/mullets/