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SHARON, PENNSYLVANIA - Bill Murray, became the seventh African American to be nationally syndicated in March 2005. A cartoonist from Sharon, Murray has two featured comic strips syndicated internationally. “Jet News”, which is heavily laced with political satire and “The Golden Years” which pokes fun at some of the joys and sorrows of the retired.

Murray also does a comic strip for the RealTime Media newspaper chain, entited,"Sonnyboy" which runs weekly in the Pittsburgh Courier since 1981.

Some of Murray's other features that are published around the world includes: "Those Browns" and "Ebony Laughs". Murray’s syndicated features combined appears in over 1100 publications around the world. In 1985 Murray along side comic book legendary artist Jerry Ordway, Ben Dunn and NINJA TURTLE co-creator Kevin Eastman, created Murray’s first comic book: ADAM & EVE A.D. which issue # 1 is now a hot item on ebay and comic book stores on the Internet. Murray also does editorial cartoons some of which have appeared on CNN, FOX, USA TODAY and many other leading publications around the country. Born in Chicago, Murray has a bachelor of fine arts degree in visual communications from the institute of of art Chicago, IL. and served his art apprenticeship with Johnson Publishing Co. of Chicago, which publishes Ebony and Jet Magazines.

In 1975 Murray moved to the state of Pennsylvania and began doing editorial cartoons and a comic strip (Those Browns) for the Herald of Sharon Pa. and others such as The Pittsburgh Courier, Akron Reporter and Chicago Defender and many others. In the late 70's Murray comic feature panel "Those Browns" was distributed by Sammy Davis,Jr. enterprises to 62 publications around the world.

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