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Margaret Shulock – RIP
Cartoonist Margaret Shulock has passed away.
Margaret (Ackerman) Shulock
September 27, 1949 – October 17, 2021
Margaret Ackerman Shulock, of 7652 Wideman Highway, Friendship, handed away Sunday (Oct. 17, 2021) after a protracted sickness.
Margaret grew up in Canastota, New York and attended SUNY State School at Buffalo for a number of years. A gifted artist, she lived in Friendship, NY for a few years, the place she labored out of her studio. She cherished music, animals, and observing the rhythms of nature on her farmland in addition to horses and the individuals who rode them.
Her single-panel comedian first appeared within the Olean Instances Herald. She later joined 5 different ladies cartoonists as Six Chix, a comic book strip that appeared in main newspapers. From 2004-2014 she was additionally a part of the Snowman Group, a bunch of artists who offered their work at native exhibits held twice a 12 months. Margaret’s greeting playing cards and wall calendars mirrored her rural environment and witty humorousness. She had associates from Maine to California that she saved involved with.
Margaret was most famously one of many unique Six Chix contributors till 2017.
From a Women You Should Know profile about that panel:
As famous within the obituary Margaret did a panel known as Sticks for the Olean Instances Herald.
That panel is unfold amongst different drawings at her Sticks blog.
From Susanna McLeod’s Cartoonists site:
Celebrating her fiftieth birthday in 2000, Margaret additionally celebrated incomes a spot as one among King Options Syndicate’s Six Chix. She had been working within the medical business for years when she burned out on that profession. She and her husband Jim – a navy man who was a submariner within the Sixties – took up not-so-successful farming close to Friendship, in southwestern New York State not too removed from the Pennsylvania state line. A doodler from childhood, Margaret drew postcards for her mother and father, then created a calendar in 1996. *(1) Her calendar was seen by somebody with an excellent eye for comics who steered that she ship her work to King Options Syndicate for examination. It didn’t take lengthy to get a response.
Jay Kennedy, Editor in Chief of King Options, accepted a few of her work for publication on the primary submission.
Susanna additionally lists another credit for Margaret:
Margaret enjoys her cartooning work immensely. “To be a part of the Six Chix is great. I can see myself doing it at 80!” *(2) Her intriguing profession now additionally encompasses work on different comedian strips. She has been enlisted to affix cartoonist Frank Volle as the author for “Residence 3-G“, a long-running, cleaning soap opera-style sketch. Margaret additionally works with cartoonist John Rose on the legendary “Snuffy Smith” sketch; Rose creates the artwork whereas Margaret writes the gags. All three below the King Options Syndicate, the strips are loved and treasured by followers in newspapers and publications around the globe.
Add that Margaret contributed to King Options’ New Breed panel
and subbed for Hilary Value on Rhymes With Orange a few times.
Margaret’s passing was originally posted on Facebook by her sisters-in-law.
It hurts to announce the next – Margaret handed away peacefully as we speak. All of us will miss her and her sensible humorousness amongst our many different reminiscences. We had been lucky that she married our brother who she was dedicated to. Could she relaxation in peace. XOXO
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