September 27, 2010

Scott Dikkers made his first animated cartoon on Super-8 film in 1981. His second was produced on a computer, programmed on an Apple IIe in 1982. By 1983 he moved to multi-panel comic strips, winning first prize in a state Journalism contest for a comic strip he drew for his high-school newspaper. He went on to create and draw comic strips professionally. One of his comic strips,Jim’s Journal, appeared in 200 newspapers and spawned a bestselling collection published by Andrews-McMeel. In 1988 Dikkers helped create a new humor newspaper, The Onion. He served as editor-in-chief and launched it as the world’s first humor website. In the company’s second decade, Dikkers oversawThe Onion’s creative expansion into book publishing, radio, and web video. He resigned his post in 2008 to start Dikkers Cartoon Company.

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