Jim Meddick

{{BLP sources|date=April 2011}} '''Jim Meddick''' (born August 1961) is an American cartoonist.<ref>{{cite web |title=Strip starring suburban robot starting soon |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1984-12-29_117_52/page/n87/mode/2uphttps://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1984-12-29_117_52/page/n87/mode/2up |website=Internet Archive |date=29 December 1984 |publisher=Editor and Publisher |access-date=January 24, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ST&s_site=dfw&p_multi=ST&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF9299006E8F2F&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=A funny thing's happening to our comics pages|quote=Robotman: Jim Meddick's surreal, sometimes dark-humored strip is probably the strangest addition to the Star-Telegram lineup.|date=September 18, 2000|work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram|pages=1 LIFE|accessdate=18 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4241D60D90DE3&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Smooth Sphynxes top shaggy tabbies as new cat's meow|last=Dodge|first=Susan|date=June 22, 1999|work=Chicago Sun-Times|page=8|accessdate=18 April 2011|quote=Creator Jim Meddick said he tried to write Fleshy out after a week by having him adopted by bald actor Patrick Stewart, but readers' response was so heavy ...}}</ref><ref name="LaneHasten1985">{{cite book|last1=Lane|first1=Susan|last2=Hasten|first2=Elizabeth|title=How to make money in newspaper syndication: a step-by-step guide which shows you how to market your feature to newspaper syndicates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y-_yAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=18 April 2011|year=1985|publisher=Newspaper Syndication Specialists|isbn=978-0-9615800-1-8|page=14}}</ref>

While attending Washington University in St. Louis, he won the Chicago Tribune Student Cartoonist Contest for a strip named ''Paperback Writer''. After graduating, in 1983 he became a political cartoonist. In 1985, he created the comic strip ''Robotman'', now known as ''Monty''. Meddick did not own the Robotman property, whereas he created and owns the Monty character. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and son.

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==External links== *[http://www.reuben.org/ncs/members/biogs/meddick.asp Short bio] (with picture) at the National Cartoonists Society *[http://www.gocomics.com/monty/ Monty website]

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