Don Chambers is author and artist for the Golden Pencil award-winning newspaper comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 Mannequins.
Mannequins was first published in the Arthur Graphic-Clarion, Arthur, Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

, in 1996. Mannequins was the first newspaper comic strip to feature computer-generated

Computer-generated

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 and physical 3D

3D computer graphics

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 characters along with actual photographic images in the background of the comic panels. Chambers' artwork and comics have been featured in dozens of magazines, including Farm Journal

Farm Journal

Farm Journal is a classical composition by the American composer Douglas Moore. The work was the result of a commission Moore received from the Little Orchestra Society in 1947 and which gave the work's premiere in the following year, conducted by Thomas Scherman. The music derives from Moore's...

, Street Rodder and Car Craft

Car Craft

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. His animations and graphics have been used in four regional Emmy Award

Emmy Award

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 winning documentaries for PBS.

Works

• Mannequins at Home in Illinois and Western Indiana
• Recipes from the Soybean Farm
• Mannequins Rocks Southern England and the Midwestern United States
• A Pig Named Wedge
• Mannequins: A Tenth-Anniversary Collection