Howard "Howie" Adolph Schneider (April 24, 1930 - June 28, 2007) was an award-winning cartoonist, sculptor and children's book author who lived and worked in Massachusetts. His best-known comic strip, "Eek and Meek," ran from 1965 to 2000 in more than 400 newspapers through Newspaper Enterprise Association.
After Eek and Meek was cancelled, Schneider became the editorial cartoonist for the Provincetown Banner. [1]
On October 6, 2003, he launched a daily and Sunday comic strip, "The Sunshine Club," which looked at the issues of aging and was distributed by United Feature Syndicate.
Other strips of Schneider's included "Percy's World" and "Bimbo's Circus" (a.k.a. "The Circus of P.T. Bimbo.")
Schneider served 20 years on the board of the Newspaper Features Council and eight years on the board of the National Cartoonists Society.
His cartoons had been published in publications such as The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, Redbook, and McCall's.