Rick Newcombe has been inducted into the Pipe Smoker's Hall of Fame and is the recipient of both the Doctor of Pipes Award from the Chicagoland Pipe Club and the award for Outstanding Pipe Collection from the Southwest Pipe and Cigar League. He has written for "The Pipe Collector, ""Pipe Friendly, The Pipe Smoker's Ephemeris, "and "Pipes and Tobaccos, " and he is the president of Creators Syndicate, a newspaper and Internet syndication company. He lives in Los Angeles. Albert Mendez has written extensively for many pipe-smoking publications, including "The Pipe Smoker's Ephemeris" and "The Pipe Collector." He lives in New York City.