Eek & Meek was a 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....

 by Howie Schneider

Howie Schneider

Howard Adolph Schneider , better known as Howie Schneider, was an award-winning cartoonist, sculptor and children's book author who lived and worked in Massachusetts...

 which ran from 1965 to 2000, syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association

United Media

United Media is a large editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. It syndicates 150 comics and editorial columns worldwide. Its core business is the United Feature Syndicate and the Newspaper Enterprise Association...

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The strip featured the foibles of the two title characters. Eek, an aggressive alcoholic, was always seen with a bowler hat

Bowler hat

The bowler hat, also known as a coke hat, derby , billycock or bombin, is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown originally created in 1849 for the English soldier and politician Edward Coke, the younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Leicester...

and a beard stubble. Meek was exactly as his name implies. Supporting characters included Meek's love interest, Monique, rebellious kid Luvable and his friend Freaky.

This strip is unique because the characters began as anthropomorphic mice only to morph into humans in early 1980s.

Books

• Eek & Meek (May 1969) ISBN 610-62-104
• Eek & Meek: One More Time (February 1970) ISBN 610-62-289
• Eek & Meek: Book Three (December 1970) ISBN 610-62-502