[HTML1]More about Robert Reid
Robert Reid, Lonely Planet’s US Travel Editor and spokesperson, is one of our most diversely traveled authors, having updated two dozen guidebooks including New York City, Central America, Colombia, Eastern Europe, Trans-Siberian Railway and Myanmar (Burma). He has worked for with Lonely Planet for 11 years – first as an editor of books like Mexico and South America in the Oakland office, then in London and Melbourne as publishing manager of multi-country titles like Southeast Asia and Europe before becoming a full-time author. For his writing first assignment, he turned down an offer for the Caribbean to research and write the USA’s Great Plains – farmlands normally associated as ‘fly-over states.’ He contends it’s the best trip he’s been on. “Travel is more about the how than the where,’ as he puts it. (Though he admits he might take the Caribbean next time.)
His writings have also appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and ESPN, and he blogs for our site and his own, ReidOnTravel.com, home to a free online guidebook to Vietnam. Some writings are more playful than others. On his weekly video missive, the ’76-Second Travel Show,’ he’s questioned whether ‘Marc Polo’ was just an overrated ‘blogger’; while updating Lonely Planet’s Trans-Siberian Railway a few years ago, he counted moustaches and created graphs to tabulate likelihood by latitude, population and time zone – something mentioned in a New York Times article on ‘experimental travel.’ Closer to home, Robert has been picked as one of the ‘Top 100 Travel Tweeters’ on Twitter (find him at @reidontravel), while he’s more embarrassed with his inclusion as one of the ‘Top 10 Man Candy Twitterers.’ He’s appeared on the Today Show, NPR, CNN International and made appearances at events like the Los Angeles Times Travel Show.
Robert has lived and worked in London, San Francisco, Melbourne and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
More about Tom Wilson
Tom Wilson has been drawing Ziggy since 1987. It seems to come very naturally to Tom, whose father created the cartoon and whose family includes many artists. Even his school-age children, Miles and Sam, are showing a talent for art.
Tom studied graphic design at Miami University and fine art and illustration at Boston University. Tom graduated in 1981 and soon after became the Director of New Product Development for Amtoy, a New York City-based toy company.
After leaving Amtoy, Tom devoted his full attention to cartooning and fulfilled his childhood dream of drawing Ziggy. He pursues his ongoing passion for creative development as President of Ziggy & Friends, Inc., where he directs Ziggy licensing, and as a creative consultant for product development at Richard Saunders International, a world-renowned creative think tank in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Tom recently founded Character Matters, a company that specializes in creating and developing original characters as identifiable illustrations for effectively communicating specific brands, products, or services.
More about ZIGGY
Ziggy first appeared in newspapers in June 1971. Tom Wilson of Cincinnati, Ohio, has drawn and written Ziggy since 1987, after the retirement of his father, the senior Tom Wilson, who first created Ziggy as a greeting card character. Distributed through Universal Press Syndicate, a division of Andrews McMeel Universal, Ziggy is published in more than 600 newspapers, reaching 75 million readers daily, and maintains an online presence through ZiggyZone.com and UClick.com. More than 20 Ziggy cartoon collection books and yearly calendars have been published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. Hundreds of other products continue to be produced through licensing agreements.
Ziggy’s inspiring message extends to Autism Speaks and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, where he serves as the full-time official spokes character, and to World Food Day, where Wilson creates an annual comic panel to support the cause.
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Project Night Night and their efforts to put a new or slightly used children’s book in the hands of homeless children in shelters in the United States. Since 2005, they have hand-delivered more than 100,000 night night packages which include a stuffed animal, a blanket and a children’s book tucked inside a canvas night night bag. We encourage you to find out how you can donate to support their efforts today.
ClassWish.org, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, provides immediate relief to the desperate lack of classroom supplies that plague most schools.
Teachers visit the site to create a Wish List of the things they need to equip great classrooms, as easily as shopping online. Parents, alumni, local businesses and others in the community see exactly what is needed and make tax-deductible contributions online to help. ClassWish sends the supplies directly to teachers at the school
The result? Teachers get the support they need. Parents and communities are engaged in supporting classrooms and funding the things they care about. And everyone is united in helping our children learn, grow and perform at their best.
Read to Feed is a reading incentive service-learning program that offers global education opportunities and will foster in your children a love for reading, a passion to help others and a way to help create a better world.
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