Charles Boyce

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Charles Boyce is an American cartoonist known for his witty humor appeals in Compu-toon, a syndicated comic panel. He's also known for the creation and developing of the KeyPad Kid^[1], a noted cartoon character used in public affairs awareness programs for training within the telecommunication industry.

[edit] Biography

Charles Boyce(b. 1949) is the creator of Compu-toon, a single panel cartoon about the humorous situations between people and technology. He was born in Olive Branch, Mississippi and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. Prior to serving in the United States Navy from 1969 to 1973, he attended the Memphis Academy of Arts.^[2]

While serving as a lithographer stationed in the print shop on the USS Cascade AD-16, an attendant destroyer that patrolled the Mediterranean Sea during the Vietnam War, he created his first comic strip, Pudgy and JB, for the USS Cascader, the ship's newspaper.^{[citation needed]} He continued his studies in the arts at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and University of Illinois/Chicago Circle Campus.^{[citation needed]} In 1984, while working for the Chicago Tribune, Boyce had an opportunity to develop a comic strip - Compu-toon - for the in-house newsletter, TribNews.^{[citation needed]}

The strip ran in approximately 150 newspapers from 1994 until 1997.^[3]

Boyce took early retirement in 2003, and has since been producing daily panels on the Internet for Universal Press Syndicate including a color panel for Sunday. He resides in Barrington, Illinois with his wife.