Wiley Miller (born 1951 in California) is an American cartoonist who brings wry wit, imaginative concepts, superior drawing skills and trenchant social satire to the mainstream syndicated comic strip pages. 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... A cartoonist at work. ...

He studied art at Virginia Commonwealth University and worked for several Los Angeles educational film studios before relocating in North Carolina in 1976 to work as an editorial cartoonist and staff artist with the Greensboro News & Record. Returning to California and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, he drew Fenton (1982), his first syndicated strip. In 1985, he signed on as an editorial cartoonist at the San Francisco Examiner. He was named Best Editorial Cartoonist by the California Newspaper Publishers Association in 1988 and won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for editorial cartooning in 1991. Virginia Commonwealth University, or VCU, is a large American research university with its main campuses located in downtown Richmond, Virginia. ... Downtown Los Angeles skyline facing northeast toward the San Gabriel Mountains on a clear winter day. ... State nickname: Tar Heel State Other U.S. States Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Governor Michael Easley Official languages English Area 139,509 km² (28th)  - Land 126,256 km²  - Water 13,227 km² (9. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The San Francisco Examiner is a daily newspaper in San Francisco, California, where it has been published continuously since 1865, beginning with the name The Daily Examiner. ...

In 1992, he launched his popular Non Sequitur strip, eventually syndicated to 700 newspapers. In 1994, Miller pioneered the use of process color in comic strips, and developed a format in 1995 that allows one cartoon to be used in two different ways for both panel dimensions and strip dimensions. The National Cartoonists Society honored Non Sequitur with four Reuben Awards in the first six years of publication. Non Sequitur is the only comic strip to win its division during the first year of publication, and it is the only comic feature to win in two divisions; it was awarded Best Comic Strip in 1993 and Best Syndicated Panel in 1995, 1996 and 1998. Non Sequitur is a comic strip created by Wiley Miller in 1991 and syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate to over 700 newspapers. ... The National Cartoonists Society is an organization of professional cartoonists created in 1946. ... The Reuben Award is an award given by the National Cartoonists Society for print cartoonists, primarily comic strips, often compared the Academy Awards in its stature. ...

Books by Wiley Miller include Dead Lawyers and Other Pleasant Thoughts (1993), The Non Sequitur Survival Guide for the Nineties (1995), Non Sequitur’s Beastly Things (1999, foreword by Jules Feiffer), The Legal Lampoon (2002), Why We’ll Never Understand Each Other (2003), Lucy and Danae: Something Silly This Way Comes (2005) and Homer, the Reluctant Soul (2005).

In 2004, Wiley Miller, his wife Victoria Coviello and their four Jack Russell terriers moved from Santa Barbara, California, to Kennebunkport, Maine. He explained the relocation to Stephanie Bouchard of the Maine Sunday Telegram: "Part of the attraction for both of us is in a creative sense. Santa Barbara is beautiful. As far as year-round climate, it's perfect, but there's no real change. These dramatic changes really spark the creative nature because it's change. It gives you a fresh look at the world. It's invigorating. Santa Barbara is too nice; hard to get work done. We spent eight years in Iowa. Iowa is always overcast; it's awful. Here, in Winter, we don't go out much so we get more work done." Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. ... Boats on the Kennebunk River between Kennebunk and Kennebunkport Kennebunkport is a town located in York County, Maine. ... State nickname: The Hawkeye State Other U.S. States Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Governor Thomas Vilsack Official languages English Area 145,743 km² (26th)  - Land 144,701 km²  - Water 1,042 km² (0. ...

When Bouchard asked him about the Maine setting in some of his strips, he responded, "I created a series of characters that came from our visits to Maine. Offshore Flo is patterned after the Maine Diner (http://mainediner.com/index.cfm) in Wells. I wanted to capture the essence of Maine people's genuineness -- down-to-earth, good-natured people -- and work in the accent. I heard from displaced New Englanders. I got emails from people who said how dead-on the accent was and how dead wrong. It's tricky working phonetically because you still have to be legible, finding the balance of how far to take it. It's set in Whatchacallit, Maine. I realized there had never been this setting in comics. I hate following. More fun blazing a new trail. Nobody's ever been to Maine in the comics." State nickname: The Pine Tree State Other U.S. States Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Governor John Baldacci Official languages None Area 86,542 km² (39th)  - Land 80,005 km²  - Water 11,724 km² (13. ... Wells is a town located in York County, Maine. ...

External links

• Non Sequitur (http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/)