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</style><table class="infobox ib-comics-creator biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn">Allen Saunders</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">Allen Saunders on <i><a href="Password_(American_game_show)" title="Password (American game show)">Password</a></i> (May 20, 1965).</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">John Allen Saunders<br><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1899-04-24</span>)</span>April 24, 1899<br><a href="Lebanon%2C_Indiana" title="Lebanon, Indiana">Lebanon, Indiana</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">January 28, 1986<span style="display:none">(1986-01-28)</span> (aged 86)<br><span class="deathplace"><a href="Maumee%2C_Ohio" title="Maumee, Ohio">Maumee, Ohio</a>, U.S.<sup id="cite_ref-times-obit_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-obit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Area(s)</span></th><td class="infobox-data role">Writer, Editor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Notable works</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="Big_Chief_Wahoo" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Chief Wahoo">Big Chief Wahoo</a></i> / <i><a href="Steve_Roper_and_Mike_Nomad" title="Steve Roper and Mike Nomad">Steve Roper and Mike Nomad</a></i><br><i><a href="Mary_Worth" title="Mary Worth">Mary Worth</a></i><br><i><a href="Kerry_Drake" title="Kerry Drake">Kerry Drake</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Inkpot_Award" title="Inkpot Award">Inkpot Award</a> (1981)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Spouse(s)</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Lois</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">4</td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><b>Allen Saunders</b> (April 24, 1899 – January 28, 1986)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American writer, journalist and cartoonist who wrote the <a href="Comic_strip" title="Comic strip">comic strips</a> <i><a href="Steve_Roper_and_Mike_Nomad" title="Steve Roper and Mike Nomad">Steve Roper and Mike Nomad</a></i>, <i><a href="Mary_Worth" title="Mary Worth">Mary Worth</a></i> and <i><a href="Kerry_Drake" title="Kerry Drake">Kerry Drake</a></i>.

</p><p>He is credited with being the originator of the saying, "Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans" in 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The saying was later slightly modified and popularised by <a href="John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a> in the song "<a href="Beautiful_Boy_(Darling_Boy)" title="Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)">Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)</a>".

</p><p>His full name, <b>John Allen Saunders</b>, sometimes led to confusion with his son John (John Phillip Saunders, 1924–2003), who later continued two of his father's strips.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career_overview">Career overview</h2></div>

<p>Allen Saunders covered the gamut of comics genres: editorial, commercial, gag, adventure, and melodrama. <i><a href="Big_Chief_Wahoo" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Chief Wahoo">Big Chief Wahoo</a></i> (later renamed <i>Steve Roper and Mike Nomad</i>) was popular in its day, a witty romp with puns, slapstick and satire. But although it defended <a href="Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native Americans</a> and joked at "palefaces," it relied on exaggerated stereotypes for humor. Saunders admitted that "if we were doing Chief Wahoo today, we'd have problems."<sup id="cite_ref-Ridgeway_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ridgeway-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was his serious dramas or "open-ended novels"<sup id="cite_ref-Ridgeway_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ridgeway-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Steve Roper</i>, <i>Mary Worth</i>, and <i>Kerry Drake</i> that showed his mature talents and reflected himself and his views on the human condition.

</p><p>Roper, like Saunders, was a journalist who was decent, knew French, smoked a pipe, had run his college newspaper (and almost flunked physics) and faced tough challenges. Through him, Saunders defended journalism while also enjoying the action sequences he wrote for him and Nomad. He was especially fond of the "indigenous gimmick" technique, solving a problem by using something that is ordinarily ignored in the setting.<sup id="cite_ref-nemo_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nemo-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But he identified more with Mary Worth: "Mary and I have come, over the years, to think pretty much alike" (1971 interview). As opposed to the existing action/adventure genre popular with male readers, his <i>Mary Worth</i> established the soap strip with its appeal primarily to women. (In his 1971 interview, he said that 90% of his fan letters for Worth came from females, and 90% of those for Roper and Nomad were from males.) It in fact was singled out for praise by <a href="Eleanor_Roosevelt" title="Eleanor Roosevelt">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He inspired later soap strip writers such as <a href="Nicholas_P._Dallis" title="Nicholas P. Dallis">Nick Dallis</a>, who started <i><a href="Rex_Morgan%2C_M.D." title="Rex Morgan, M.D.">Rex Morgan, M.D.</a></i>, <i><a href="Judge_Parker" title="Judge Parker">Judge Parker</a></i>, and <i><a href="Apartment_3-G" title="Apartment 3-G">Apartment 3-G</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But he himself disliked the term "soap" because he saw an underlying unity in his own strips as "adventure strips" based on conflict—emotional conflict in <i>Mary Worth</i>, physical conflict in <i>Steve Roper</i>. One of his major contributions was to merge the two as Roper, Nomad, and Drake increasingly dealt with emotional conflicts in their personal lives and faced hard moral dilemmas.<sup id="cite_ref-Brandenburg_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brandenburg-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Narrating conflicts in a range of social issues (drugs, the sexes, divorce, job loss, the youth scene and counterculture, prejudice, and of course crime, to name just a few), Saunders wrote tight, fast-moving stories with plot twists and dramatic tension lightened by droll predicaments. He was known for "sophisticated scripts with literate dialogue",<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with almost twice as much said (and happening) per daily strip as in the post-1979 versions, and under him, even Nomad (later treated as slow-witted and speaking in <a href="Grawlixes" class="mw-redirect" title="Grawlixes">grawlixes</a>) was a sharp, shrewd character who was articulate in three languages. Saunders explored personality and motivation in the long series of people passing through his strips, and they got to be "awfully real" to him.<sup id="cite_ref-Brandenburg_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brandenburg-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His scripts were interpreted and fleshed out by talented realist artists (Ernst in <i>Mary Worth</i>, <a href="Pete_Hoffman" title="Pete Hoffman">Pete Hoffman</a> and then <a href="William_Overgard" title="William Overgard">William Overgard</a> in <i>Steve Roper</i>, <a href="Alfred_Andriola" title="Alfred Andriola">Alfred Andriola</a> and his ghosts in <i>Kerry Drake</i>) who made the characters and settings both attractive and believable.

</p><p>At the end of Saunders' autobiography (published in <i>Nemo</i> shortly after his death), <i>Nemo</i> editor <a href="Rick_Marschall" title="Rick Marschall">Rick Marschall</a> called him a "dedicated craftsman and a flinty, memorable personality." That showed through clearly in his 42-year output of popular dramas for his "paper actors."<sup id="cite_ref-nemo_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nemo-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h3></div>

<p>Born in <a href="Lebanon%2C_Indiana" title="Lebanon, Indiana">Lebanon, Indiana</a>, Saunders enjoyed newspaper comics as a youth, and he practiced drawing them. After graduating from <a href="Wabash_College" title="Wabash College">Wabash College</a> in 1920, he taught French there for seven years while working in the summers on his M.A. at the <a href="University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> and taking night classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He drew editorial cartoons and the single-panel <i>Miserable Moments</i>, wrote detective fiction for magazines, worked in <a href="Chautauqua" title="Chautauqua">Chautauqua</a> theater and wrote plays. These experiences converged in his later comics career.<sup id="cite_ref-nemo_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nemo-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In 1927, while on sabbatical from Wabash, he moved to <a href="Toledo%2C_Ohio" title="Toledo, Ohio">Toledo, Ohio</a> as a reporter and drama critic for the <i>News-Bee</i>, and he stayed on with that newspaper. Eight years later, <a href="Elmer_Woggon" title="Elmer Woggon">Elmer Woggon</a> (a friend at the rival <i><a href="Toledo_Blade" class="mw-redirect" title="Toledo Blade">Toledo Blade</a></i>) proposed a comic strip for <a href="Publishers_Syndicate" title="Publishers Syndicate">Publishers Syndicate</a>, <i>The Great Gusto</i>, which he would draw if Saunders did the writing. They shook on it, but it wasn't accepted until they refocused on its Indian character. On November 23, 1936, it finally appeared in the newspapers as <i>Big Chief Wahoo</i> and scored a success—fortunately, as Saunders' regular job ended when the <i>News-Bee</i> folded in 1938. Gags gave way to adventure strips, so in 1940, he began to reshape the narrative into <i><a href="Steve_Roper_and_Mike_Nomad" title="Steve Roper and Mike Nomad">Steve Roper</a></i>, centered on the escapades of a racket-busting photojournalist.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mary_Worth"><i>Mary Worth</i></h3></div>

<p>In 1939, he was asked to write <i>Apple Mary</i> when its creator (since 1932) Martha Orr left, and he developed it into <i>Mary Worth's Family</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-times-obit_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-obit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While the <a href="King_Features_Syndicate" title="King Features Syndicate">King Features Syndicate</a> website insists that these two Marys are unrelated, Saunders' autobiography and interviews explicitly document the transition. The Depression-era apple vendor's full name was Mary Worth, and Saunders explained his makeover of the character and how her deceased husband's stocks regained their value. The result was a new kind of continuity strip patterned on women's magazine stories of the time, as Mary met people with interesting lives and dispensed her advice when their problems reached a critical point. When his artist Dale Conner quit to do a strip of her own, Saunders persuaded Ken Ernst to take over the artwork in 1942, and the strip became simply <i><a href="Mary_Worth" title="Mary Worth">Mary Worth</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-nemo_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nemo-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<p>In addition to these two strips, as comics editor for Publishers Syndicate, he finished up the police strip <i><a href="Dan_Dunn" title="Dan Dunn">Dan Dunn</a></i> in 1942–43 and agreed to write the syndicate's proposed replacement, <i>Kerry Drake</i>. But the artist, <a href="Alfred_Andriola" title="Alfred Andriola">Alfred Andriola</a>, stipulated receiving sole credit for it. So for three decades, Saunders intrigued newspaper and comic book readers with his well-written and researched <i>Kerry Drake</i> detective stories, but he was not credited, even when Andriola accepted the 1970 <a href="Reuben_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Reuben Award">Reuben Award</a> for "<i>Kerry Drake</i> by Alfred Andriola." Saunders quit the strip soon after that and was "not sorry".<sup id="cite_ref-nemo_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nemo-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was only after Andriola's death in 1983 that the real author was revealed.<sup id="cite_ref-nemo_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nemo-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Even with the occasional assistance of his son John, a Toledo broadcaster, it was a challenge to keep three story strips going (as well as writing a 1950s advertising comic <i>Duke Handy</i> and consulting on John's strip <i><a href="Dateline%3A_Danger!" title="Dateline: Danger!">Dateline: Danger!</a></i> (1968–74)<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But as he noted in his autobiography, "as long as there are people, there are plots." He approached his work as a "craft."<sup id="cite_ref-nemo_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nemo-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>After getting feedback for a story idea from his artists, he isolated himself to map it out over 13 weeks of dailies and Sundays (1953 article), with the playwriting formula "First act, get your leading character up a tree; second act, throw rocks at him; third act, get him down". Then, in his work week, he allocated two days to each of the three strips to create a week's worth, using his own cartooning skills to sketch roughs of the characters and dialog in each panel for his artists and letterers to follow. Saunders also served as chair of the Newspaper Comics Council, was a longtime member of the <a href="National_Cartoonists_Society" title="National Cartoonists Society">National Cartoonists Society</a> who helped younger cartoonists get started (e.g., <a href="Fran_Matera" title="Fran Matera">Fran Matera</a>, <a href="Pete_Hoffman" title="Pete Hoffman">Pete Hoffman</a>, <a href="Nicholas_P._Dallis" title="Nicholas P. Dallis">Nicholas P. Dallis</a>, <a href="Alex_Kotzky" title="Alex Kotzky">Alex Kotzky</a>), and was a civic-minded leader in Toledo community affairs.<sup id="cite_ref-nemo_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nemo-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In 1957, Saunders wrote the line, "Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans," usually attributed to <a href="John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a>. It appeared in a 1957 issue of the <i><a href="Reader's_Digest" title="Reader's Digest">Reader's Digest</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_life_and_death">Later life and death</h3></div>

<p>In 1979, Saunders retired and turned over the writing of <i>Steve Roper</i> and <i>Mary Worth</i> to son John. He remained professionally active as "Dean of American Continuity Strips" (a reputation that amused him), received an <a href="Inkpot_Award" title="Inkpot Award">Inkpot Award</a> in 1981, and wrote his <i>Nemo</i> autobiography, a rich resource on the history of American comic strip writing. He died on January 28, 1986, survived by his wife of 63 years, Lois, and their four children (John, David, Penny, Lois Ann), and donating an archive of material to the Browne Library for Popular Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. <i>Steve Roper and Mike Nomad</i>, the enduring continuation of his first strip, finally came to an end on December 26, 2004, while <i>Mary Worth</i> still appears under Karen Moy and <a href="Joe_Giella" title="Joe Giella">Joe Giella</a>. <i>Kerry Drake</i> ended with Andriola.

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<li id="cite_note-nemo-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-nemo_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nemo_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nemo_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nemo_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nemo_5-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nemo_5-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nemo_5-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nemo_5-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Saunders, Allen. 1983-6. Autobiography, <i>Playwright for Paper Actors</i>, <i><a href="Nemo%2C_the_Classic_Comics_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Nemo, the Classic Comics Library">Nemo, the Classic Comics Library</a></i>, no. 4-7, 9, 10, 14, 18, 19.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Roosevelt, Eleanor. 1959.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1959&_f=md004464">My Day</a>. June 12, 1959.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mendez, A. E. 2006. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071213001552/http://profmendez.tripod.com/html/apart3G2.htm">"Remembering the Girls Next Door: Alex Kotzky and Apartment 3-G," Part 2</a>, <i>The Look of Love:The Rise and Fall of the Photo-Realistic Newspaper Strip, 1946-1970</i>.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-Brandenburg-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Brandenburg_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Brandenburg_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Brandenburg, George A. "Soap Opera in Comics? Never, Says Saunders" (1949), archived at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2007/05/news-of-yore-allen-saunders-profiled.html">"News of Yore: Allen Saunders Profiled,"</a> Stripper's Guide (May 16, 2007).</span>

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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Brown Popular Culture Library news. 2007. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ul.bgsu.edu/pclblog/index.php?s=Saunders">Allen and John Saunders Collection</a> (March 17, 2007).</span>

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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140415060050/http://www2.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/pclms48_intro.html">"PCL MS-48: Allen and John Saunders Collection"</a>. Browne Popular Culture Library, <a href="Bowling_Green_State_University" title="Bowling Green State University">Bowling Green State University</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/pclms48_intro.html">the original</a> on 2014-04-15<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2014-04-13</span></span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Saunders, John. Foreword to <i>Steve Roper and Wahoo</i>. Blackthorne Publishing (Book 2), 1986.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Keyes, Ralph. <i>The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When</i>, 2006.</span>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sources">Sources</h3></div>

<ul><li>Toledo Blade.1953. "Evolution of a Comic Strip" by Seymour Rothman, Pictorial, Aug. 9 1953, p. 5–6, reprinted in <i>Steve Roper and Wahoo</i>, Blackthorne Publishing (Book 2).</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reuben.org/ncs/members/memorium/saunders.jpg">National Cartoonists Society: Allen Saunders</a>.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/saunders_allen.htm">Lambiek: Allen Saunders</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003737/http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/mworth/about.htm">King Features: Mary Worth</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/s/saunders_a.htm">Allen Saunders Papers</a>: An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Terry_Austin_(comics)" title="Terry Austin (comics)">Terry Austin</a></li>

<li><a href="Murray_Bishoff" title="Murray Bishoff">Murray Bishoff</a></li>

<li><a href="Pat_Boyette" title="Pat Boyette">Pat Boyette</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Byrne_(comics)" title="John Byrne (comics)">John Byrne</a></li>

<li><a href="National_Film_Board_of_Canada" title="National Film Board of Canada">National Film Board of Canada</a></li>

<li><a href="Ernie_Chan" title="Ernie Chan">Ernie Chan</a></li>

<li><a href="Chris_Claremont" title="Chris Claremont">Chris Claremont</a></li>

<li><a href="Shary_Flenniken" title="Shary Flenniken">Shary Flenniken</a></li>

<li><a href="Mike_Friedrich" title="Mike Friedrich">Mike Friedrich</a></li>

<li><a href="Rick_Geary" title="Rick Geary">Rick Geary</a></li>

<li><a href="S._Gross" class="mw-redirect" title="S. Gross">S. Gross</a></li>

<li><a href="Al_Hartley" title="Al Hartley">Al Hartley</a></li>

<li><a href="B._Kliban" title="B. Kliban">B. Kliban</a></li>

<li>Jerry Muller</li>

<li><a href="Joe_Orlando" title="Joe Orlando">Joe Orlando</a></li>

<li><a href="Fred_Patten" title="Fred Patten">Fred Patten</a></li>

<li><a href="Don_Phelps" title="Don Phelps">Don Phelps</a></li>

<li><a href="Wendy_and_Richard_Pini" title="Wendy and Richard Pini">Richard Pini</a></li>

<li><a href="Wendy_and_Richard_Pini" title="Wendy and Richard Pini">Wendy Pini</a></li>

<li>David Raskin</li>

<li><a href="Scott_Shaw_(artist)" title="Scott Shaw (artist)">Scott Shaw!</a></li>

<li><a href="Jim_Shooter" title="Jim Shooter">Jim Shooter</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Stanley_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Stanley (comics)">John Stanley</a></li>

<li><a href="B._K._Taylor" title="B. K. Taylor">B. K. Taylor</a></li>

<li><a href="Osamu_Tezuka" title="Osamu Tezuka">Osamu Tezuka</a></li>

<li><a href="Wally_Wood" title="Wally Wood">Wally Wood</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1981</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Jerry_Bails" title="Jerry Bails">Jerry Bails</a></li>

<li><a href="Jim_Fitzpatrick_(artist)" title="Jim Fitzpatrick (artist)">Jim Fitzpatrick</a></li>

<li><a href="Dick_Giordano" title="Dick Giordano">Dick Giordano</a></li>

<li>Dave Graue</li>

<li><a href="Paul_Gulacy" title="Paul Gulacy">Paul Gulacy</a></li>

<li>Mary Henderson</li>

<li><a href="Karl_Hubenthal" title="Karl Hubenthal">Karl Hubenthal</a></li>

<li><a href="Bil_Keane" title="Bil Keane">Bil Keane</a></li>

<li><a href="Frank_Miller" title="Frank Miller">Frank Miller</a></li>

<li><a href="Doug_Moench" title="Doug Moench">Doug Moench</a></li>

<li><a href="Monkey_Punch" title="Monkey Punch">Monkey Punch</a></li>

<li><a href="Dennis_O'Neil" title="Dennis O'Neil">Dennis O'Neil</a></li>

<li><a href="Gary_Owens" title="Gary Owens">Gary Owens</a></li>

<li><a href="Richard_Rockwell" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Rockwell">Richard Rockwell</a></li>

<li><a href="Julius_Schwartz" title="Julius Schwartz">Julius Schwartz</a></li>

<li><a href="Mike_Sekowsky" title="Mike Sekowsky">Mike Sekowsky</a></li>

<li><a href="Bill_Sienkiewicz" title="Bill Sienkiewicz">Bill Sienkiewicz</a></li>

<li><a href="Morrie_Turner" title="Morrie Turner">Morrie Turner</a></li>

<li><a href="Bill_Woggon" title="Bill Woggon">Bill Woggon</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1982</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Bob_Bindig" title="Bob Bindig">Bob Bindig</a></li>

<li><a href="Brian_Bolland" title="Brian Bolland">Brian Bolland</a></li>

<li><a href="Russ_Cochran_(publisher)" title="Russ Cochran (publisher)">Russ Cochran</a></li>

<li><a href="David_Cockrum" class="mw-redirect" title="David Cockrum">David Cockrum</a></li>

<li><a href="Max_Allan_Collins" title="Max Allan Collins">Max Allan Collins</a></li>

<li><a href="Chase_Craig" title="Chase Craig">Chase Craig</a></li>

<li><a href="Archie_Goodwin_(comics)" title="Archie Goodwin (comics)">Archie Goodwin</a></li>

<li><a href="Mike_Grell" title="Mike Grell">Mike Grell</a></li>

<li>Bruce Hamilton</li>

<li><a href="Howard_Kazanjian" title="Howard Kazanjian">Howard Kazanjian</a></li>

<li><a href="Hank_Ketcham" title="Hank Ketcham">Hank Ketcham</a></li>

<li><a href="Walter_Koenig" title="Walter Koenig">Walter Koenig</a></li>

<li>Richard Kyle</li>

<li><a href="Lee_Marrs" title="Lee Marrs">Lee Marrs</a></li>

<li><a href="Frank_Marshall_(filmmaker)" title="Frank Marshall (filmmaker)">Frank Marshall</a></li>

<li>John Pound</li>

<li>Tony Raiola</li>

<li><a href="Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a></li>

<li><a href="Leonard_Starr" title="Leonard Starr">Leonard Starr</a></li>

<li><a href="Robert_Williams_(artist)" title="Robert Williams (artist)">Robert Williams</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1983</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams">Douglas Adams</a></li>

<li>Maeheah Alzmann</li>

<li><a href="Jim_Aparo" title="Jim Aparo">Jim Aparo</a></li>

<li><a href="Don_Bluth" title="Don Bluth">Don Bluth</a></li>

<li><a href="Floyd_Gottfredson" title="Floyd Gottfredson">Floyd Gottfredson</a></li>

<li><a href="Norman_Maurer" title="Norman Maurer">Norman Maurer</a></li>

<li><a href="George_P%C3%A9rez" title="George Pérez">George Pérez</a></li>

<li><a href="Dan_Spiegle" title="Dan Spiegle">Dan Spiegle</a></li>

<li><a href="Joe_Staton" title="Joe Staton">Joe Staton</a></li>

<li><a href="James_Van_Hise" title="James Van Hise">James Van Hise</a></li>

<li><a href="Cat_Yronwode" class="mw-redirect" title="Cat Yronwode">Cat Yronwode</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1984</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Murphy_Anderson" title="Murphy Anderson">Murphy Anderson</a></li>

<li><a href="Rom%C3%A1n_Ar%C3%A1mbula" title="Román Arámbula">Román Arámbula</a></li>

<li>Fae Gates Desmond</li>

<li><a href="Stan_Drake" title="Stan Drake">Stan Drake</a></li>

<li>John Field</li>

<li><a href="Rick_Hoberg" title="Rick Hoberg">Rick Hoberg</a></li>

<li><a href="Ollie_Johnston" title="Ollie Johnston">Ollie Johnston</a></li>

<li><a href="Brant_Parker" title="Brant Parker">Brant Parker</a></li>

<li><a href="Robert_Shayne" title="Robert Shayne">Robert Shayne</a></li>

<li><a href="Frank_Thomas_(animator)" title="Frank Thomas (animator)">Frank Thomas</a></li>

<li><a href="Jim_Valentino" title="Jim Valentino">Jim Valentino</a></li>

<li><a href="Al_Williamson" title="Al Williamson">Al Williamson</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1985</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Brent_Anderson_(comics)" title="Brent Anderson (comics)">Brent Anderson</a></li>

<li><a href="David_Brin" title="David Brin">David Brin</a></li>

<li>Jack Cummings</li>

<li><a href="Jack_Davis_(cartoonist)" title="Jack Davis (cartoonist)">Jack Davis</a></li>

<li><a href="Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a></li>

<li><a href="Dan_O'Bannon" title="Dan O'Bannon">Dan O'Bannon</a></li>

<li><a href="Tom_Orzechowski" title="Tom Orzechowski">Tom Orzechowski</a></li>

<li>John Rogers</li>

<li><a href="Alex_Schomburg" title="Alex Schomburg">Alex Schomburg</a></li>

<li><a href="Walt_Simonson" title="Walt Simonson">Walt Simonson</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1986</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Poul_Anderson" title="Poul Anderson">Poul Anderson</a></li>

<li><a href="Marion_Zimmer_Bradley" title="Marion Zimmer Bradley">Marion Zimmer Bradley</a></li>

<li><a href="Dave_Gibbons" title="Dave Gibbons">Dave Gibbons</a></li>

<li><a href="Jean_Giraud" title="Jean Giraud">Jean "Moebius" Giraud</a></li>

<li><a href="Gilbert_Hernandez" title="Gilbert Hernandez">Gilbert Hernandez</a></li>

<li><a href="Jaime_Hernandez" title="Jaime Hernandez">Jaime Hernandez</a></li>

<li><a href="Denis_Kitchen" title="Denis Kitchen">Denis Kitchen</a></li>

<li><a href="Steve_Leialoha" title="Steve Leialoha">Steve Leialoha</a></li>

<li><a href="Marty_Nodell" class="mw-redirect" title="Marty Nodell">Marty Nodell</a></li>

<li><a href="Harvey_Pekar" title="Harvey Pekar">Harvey Pekar</a></li>

<li>Mark Stadler</li>

<li><a href="Dave_Stevens" title="Dave Stevens">Dave Stevens</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1987</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Steve_Ditko" title="Steve Ditko">Steve Ditko</a></li>

<li><a href="Harlan_Ellison" title="Harlan Ellison">Harlan Ellison</a></li>

<li>Larry Geeck</li>

<li><a href="Ward_Kimball" title="Ward Kimball">Ward Kimball</a></li>

<li><a href="Deni_Loubert" title="Deni Loubert">Deni Loubert</a></li>

<li><a href="Bill_Messner-Loebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill Messner-Loebs">Bill Messner-Loebs</a></li>

<li><a href="Mike_Peters_(cartoonist)" title="Mike Peters (cartoonist)">Mike Peters</a></li>

<li><a href="Bill_Schanes" title="Bill Schanes">Bill Schanes</a></li>

<li>Steve Schanes</li>

<li><a href="Robert_Silverberg" title="Robert Silverberg">Robert Silverberg</a></li>

<li><a href="Art_Spiegelman" title="Art Spiegelman">Art Spiegelman</a></li>

<li><a href="Bernie_Wrightson" title="Bernie Wrightson">Bernie Wrightson</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1988</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li>Frank Alison</li>

<li><a href="Robert_Asprin" title="Robert Asprin">Robert Asprin</a></li>

<li><a href="Mike_Baron" title="Mike Baron">Mike Baron</a></li>

<li><a href="Lynda_Barry" title="Lynda Barry">Lynda Barry</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Bolton_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Bolton (comics)">John Bolton</a></li>

<li><a href="Jules_Feiffer" title="Jules Feiffer">Jules Feiffer</a></li>

<li><a href="Raymond_E._Feist" title="Raymond E. Feist">Raymond E. Feist</a></li>

<li><a href="Matt_Groening" title="Matt Groening">Matt Groening</a></li>

<li><a href="Gary_Groth" title="Gary Groth">Gary Groth</a></li>

<li><a href="George_R._R._Martin" title="George R. R. Martin">George R. R. Martin</a></li>

<li>Mike Pasqua</li>

<li><a href="Steve_Rude" title="Steve Rude">Steve Rude</a></li>

<li><a href="Marie_Severin" title="Marie Severin">Marie Severin</a></li>

<li><a href="Matt_Wagner" title="Matt Wagner">Matt Wagner</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1989</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Richard_Alf" title="Richard Alf">Richard Alf</a></li>

<li><a href="Robert_Crumb" title="Robert Crumb">Robert Crumb</a></li>

<li><a href="Howard_Cruse" title="Howard Cruse">Howard Cruse</a></li>

<li><a href="Kevin_Eastman" title="Kevin Eastman">Kevin Eastman</a></li>

<li><a href="Ron_Goulart" title="Ron Goulart">Ron Goulart</a></li>

<li><a href="Walt_Kelly" title="Walt Kelly">Walt Kelly</a></li>

<li><a href="Peter_Laird" title="Peter Laird">Peter Laird</a></li>

<li><a href="Andre_Norton" title="Andre Norton">Andre Norton</a></li>

<li><a href="Jerry_Robinson" title="Jerry Robinson">Jerry Robinson</a></li>

<li><a href="Diana_Schutz" title="Diana Schutz">Diana Schutz</a></li>

<li>Janet Tait</li>

<li><a href="Ron_Turner_(artist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ron Turner (artist)">Ron Turner</a></li>

<li><a href="Gahan_Wilson" title="Gahan Wilson">Gahan Wilson</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>

<ul><li><a href="Inkpot_Award" title="Inkpot Award">Complete list</a></li>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

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