Charles Boyce is an American cartoonist known for his syndicated comic panel Compu-toon. He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

. He's also known for the creation and developing of the KeyPad Kid[1], a cartoon character used in public affairs awareness programs for training within the telecommunication industry.

Biography

Boyce attended the Memphis Academy of Arts in the 1960s, and in 1969 enlisted in the United States Navy

United States Navy

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While serving as a lithographer stationed in the print shop on the USS Cascade AD-16, an attendant destroyer that patrolled the Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...

 during the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

, he created his first comic strip, Pudgy and JB, for the USS Cascader, the ship's newspaper. He continued his studies in the arts at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and University of Illinois/Chicago Circle Campus. In 1984, while working for the Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...

, Boyce had an opportunity to develop a comic strip - Compu-toon

Compu-toon

Compu-toon is a comic strip by Charles Boyce. Compu-toon was launched in 1994 through Tribune Media Services. At its height, the comic strip ran in about 150 newspapers worldwide from 1994 to 1997 in print form. Now, it appears on such Web sites as www.gocomics.com, www.compu-toon.com, and...

 - for the in-house newsletter, TribNews.

The strip ran in approximately 150 newspapers from 1994 until 1997.

Boyce took early retirement in 2003, and has since been producing daily panels on the Internet for Universal Press Syndicate

Universal Press Syndicate

Universal Press Syndicate, a subsidiary of Andrews McMeel Universal, is the world's largest independent press syndicate. It distributes lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and other content. Popular columns include Dear Abby, Ann Coulter, Roger Ebert and News of the Weird...

 including a color panel for Sunday. He resides in Barrington, Illinois

Barrington, Illinois

Barrington is a suburban village in Cook County, Illinois and Lake County, Illinois. The population was 10,327 at the 2010 census. Located approximately northwest of Chicago, the area features wetlands, forest preserves, parks and horse trails in a country-suburban setting...

with his wife.