Brooke McEldowney
| Brooke McEldowney | |
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 McEldowney at the 2012 New York Comic Con. | |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
Notable works | 9 Chickweed Lane, Pibgorn |
Brooke McEldowney is the creator of the newspaper comic strip 9 Chickweed Lane and the webcomic Pibgorn.
Life
McEldowney was born in 1952 in Charleston, West Virginia, and later lived in Maine. He majored in Arts at Allegheny College, then obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Juilliard School of Music in 1977 followed by a Master of Arts in 1979, studying the viola.[1] He also studied and performed at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. He has worked as a violist, music critic, and cartoonist. He was assistant editor and contributing cartoonist for Opus, a classical music magazine, and has had cartoons published in Yankee and Pulse. His first cartoon sale was to Punch.
Career
9 Chickweed Lane debuted on Monday, July 12, 1993,[2] though comics historian Don Markstein notes that some sources erroneously give August 2, 1993.[3] It won the National Cartoonists Society Award for Newspaper Strip in 2005.[4] It has been published in several collections.
References
- ↑ Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society, Issue 3, Spring 2004. Retrieved 25 March 2013
- ↑ "There! With a supreme effort I've achieved...". Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Sarasota, New York). July 12, 1993. p. 6E (newspaper), 74 of 113 (online archive). Retrieved October 21, 2015.
- ↑ 9 Chickweed Lane at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. {http://www.webcitation.org/6bFzUmWSw Archived] from the original on September 3, 2015.
- ↑ "NCS Awards > Newspaper Strips". National Cartoonists Society. Retrieved October 21, 2015. Note: Requires clicking on "See Winners" link.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Brooke McEldowney. |
- Chickweed Café: McEldowney's "9 Chickweed Lane" blog (accessed 2015-12-16)
- Pib Press publishes the "Pibgorn" books.