Editing Judd Winick (section)

==Early life and career==
Winick was born February 12, 1970, to a [[Jewish]] family,<ref name="Frumpy">{{cite web|url= http://www.frumpy.com/judd/biography.html|title= Judd Winick|date= n.d.|publisher= The Worlds of Judd Winick|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110724195850/http://www.frumpy.com/judd/biography.html|archive-date= July 24, 2011|url-status=dead|access-date= February 8, 2012}}</ref> and grew up in [[Dix Hills, New York]].<ref name=NYTimes9.9.01>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/09/style/weddings-vows-pamela-ling-and-judd-winick.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|author=Klein, Debra A.|title=WEDDINGS: VOWS; Pamela Ling and Judd Winick|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=September 9, 2001|accessdate=March 5, 2022|archivedate=January 27, 2021|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127165239/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/09/style/weddings-vows-pamela-ling-and-judd-winick.html}}</ref> In his youth Winick initially read [[superhero comics]], but this changed when he read [[Kyle Baker]]'s graphic novel ''[[Why I Hate Saturn]]'', which Winick said in a 2015 interview he still reads once a year. Winick also cites ''[[Bloom County: Loose Tails]]'' by [[Berke Breathed]] as the first collection of that strip that changed his life, one which prompted him to spend the next ten years "horribly aping" Breathed's style.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://nypost.com/2015/10/31/in-my-library-judd-winick/|title= In My Library: Judd Winick|first= Barbara|last= Hoffman|date= October 31, 2015|work= [[New York Post]]|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171201132006/https://nypost.com/2015/10/31/in-my-library-judd-winick/|archive-date= December 1, 2017|url-status=live|df= mdy-all}}</ref>

Winick graduated from high school in 1988 and entered the [[University of Michigan]], [[Ann Arbor]]'s School of Art, intending to emulate his [[cartoonist]] heroes, including Breathed and [[Garry Trudeau]]. His comic strip, "Nuts and Bolts", began running in the school's newspaper, the ''Michigan Daily'', in his freshman year, and he was selected to speak at graduation. The university published a small print-run of a collection of his strips called ''Watching the Spin-Cycle: The Nuts & Bolts Collection''. In his senior year, [[Universal Press Syndicate]], which syndicates strips such as ''[[Doonesbury]]'' and ''[[Calvin & Hobbes]]'', offered Winick a development contract.<ref name=PedroMe16-18>Winick (2000). ''Pedro and Me''; pp. 16 – 18.</ref>