Wiley Miller

Wiley Miller was born in California and grew up in Hollywood, which may provide some clues as to where he got his sense of humor. He has always drawn cartoons; he always wanted to be a cartoonist.

"I grew up reading the comics with more enjoyment than normal, and it became a passion," he says. "I wasn't satisfied with just reading the funnies, I was always reading, tracing, then copying the work of my favorites."

In 1991, Wiley won the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for editorial cartooning. This same year, he created "Non Sequitur." "Non Sequitur" was honored by the National Cartoonists Society in their annual Reuben Awards in 1993 when the feature won the "Best Comic Strip Division Award." "Non Sequitur" also won the Reuben Award for "Best Syndicated Panel" for 1995, 1996 and 1998.

Wiley gets ideas for "Non Sequitur" everywhere he goes. Readers can usually tell when he has (a) stayed in a hotel, (b) dealt with a lawyer or accountant, (c) shoveled snow, (d) visited a big city. "Humor knows no bounds, and neither do my cartoons," he says. Above all else, Wiley considers the writing the most important part of a cartoon: "We are conveying a thought, giving a perception. We are making a comment, not necessarily a big comment on a big issue -- but an observation. Cartoonists are essentially columnists; we perform exactly the same function, we just work in a different format."

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