Mannequins at Home in Illinois and Western Indiana (Paperback) by Don Chambers. ISBN 0970673302. Mannequins Comic Strip is the very first newspaper comic to feature three-dimensional characters with actual photographic locations as backgrounds. The strip was first featured in the Arthur Graphic-Clarion (Arthur,Illinois) in 1996. This original Mannequins collection features well over 100 comic strips in addition to more than 1,300 photographs from over 230 towns, universities, and parks in Illinois and western Indiana. Many of these photographs were used as backgrounds in the strip, adding to the regional flavor!
The book also features an introduction by Jim Borgman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer and co-creator of the comic strip "Zits". Don Chambers is a broadcast animator for the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. His work has been featured in over two dozen nationally distributed publications, including Farm Journal, Car Craft, and Quilt World magazines. He is a professional member of the National Cartoonists Society, whose members include "For Better or For Worse" cartoonist Lynn Johnston and "Mother Goose and Grimm" cartoonist Mike Peters. The item ships for free!