Mike Kaye (b. 1976)

Born: 1976 October 25 in Florida, United States

Biography: Mike Kaye is an Emmy nominated graphic artist and comic book creator. He's won numerous awards including Geico's Seat Belt Art Contest, Cure for Diabetes Shirt Art Contest, Centennial logo design, Best of Show in abstract photography at the Broward County Fair and several other art related awards.

An article entitled, "Can Other Comic Books Save Real People?" in the Broward Palm Beach New Times (November 21, 2013) features Kaye. Kaye’s comic books have raised money for charities including Susan Komen for the Cure and St Francis Food Pantries for the homeless. Kaye’s original comic art sold alongside Jim Davis and other celebrities in the annual Doodle for Hunger Celebrity auctions from 2014-2018.

Mike appeared on WBEC, a local television station of Broward County Public Schools where he received an award for his creation of the centennial logo celebrating one hundred years of public schooling in Broward County, Florida (on June 15, 2016, his on-air appearance starts at 20:24). He was interviewed on WebTalkRadio on September 16, 2013 and compared to the late Stan Lee for his comic creating talents.

Kaye's "Amphoman Presents" was a comic strip series first published in the bi-weekly Broward Community College, on February 20, 1995. Kaye's character, Bleash The Fair-Feathered Warrior, also made his debut that day, in the Editorial section. Kaye's mentor through the 1990s and 2000s was the late Mort Walker of Beetle Bailey who guided Kaye through his trials and errors of comic strip creating. A black poodle named Trixie that appears in the Amphoman books, is based on the creator's own pet, she also appears in the introduction of a BECON (Broward County Public School Board Television Network) series called, "Take Paws". Kaye has appeared in the news on numerous occasions for his comic book series "Amphoman" from 2009 to current. Kaye has 31 registered copyrights at the Library of Congress for Amphoman.

Kaye is a lunchbox enthusiast who created the three point grading system for vintage metal lunchboxes. He was nominated for a Suncoast Regional Emmy Award for set design in 2009.

A portion of Kaye's life's work was donated to Michigan State University Comic Art Collection.

Further biographical details found:
https://en.everybodywiki.com/Mike_Kaye

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