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Dale Messick, Cartoonist

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My children's books are both about ecology. My prairie book was the first one written for children on the subject. My work as a naturalist/ writer for the Lake County Forest Preserve District at Ryerson Conservation Area in Deerfield, Illinois inspired it.

I wrote the second one about Yosemite National Park when I was a graduate student in San Francisco, California. I made many trips to Yosemite while I was working on it. I used their library for research. I also interviewed the head naturalist there.

I've been a writer all of the my life. I wrote my first novels at the age of ten, two mysteries. My writing has been published in newspapers and magazines. It's appeared on television shows like "California Countdown." It's appeared in ads, brochures and promotional materials.

I interviewed Dale Messick, the creator of Brenda Starr, when she was eighty-nine. She could have been mistaken for someone in their sixties. She told me she took daily walks.




Selected Works

Artist profile
Starr & Strips Forever
profile of cartoonist Dale Messick
The Iconmaker
profile of iconographer
Business
Starwood Program Earns High Marks
Eight Months After Launch, Unique Loyalty Program Still Riding High On Popularity
Playing the Name Game: Networking
the secrets of networking
Design
Simply Stickley
Thanks to an archival revival finely crafted Stickley furniture is making a modern mission statement
Health & Fitness
Powercise or Powder keg?
Aerobic "plyometrics" make some experts nervous.
Non-fiction children's books
Spring in the High Sierras
The two park rangers, flying in a helicopter high over the Sierra Nevada mountains, are looking for a lost hiker. Though they cannot see all that is going on in the wilderness below them, they know all about the plants, birds and animals in each of the five life zones.
Nonfiction children's books
The Prairie Community
ecology book for ages 9-11
Science
Grizzly Guy
Weird Invention
Travel
Inn's Ambience, solitude are the stuff of romance
Ambrosia's cozy cabins and cottages spell relaxation



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