Category: Comics - Sunday

9 Chickweed Lane (UM) by Brooke McEldowney

9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney is the popular comic strip about three generations of family - a single mom, her adolescent daughter and gritty grandma. 9 Chickweed Lane features strong characters, incredible artwork, flights of fancy and McEldowney's intuitive grasp of all kinds of relationships. The strip appears in 60 newspapers worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, Toronto Sun and Cincinnati Post. A 9 Chickweed Lane book, Hallmarks of Felinity (Andrews McMeel, 2002), chronicles the prototypically feline adventures of the strip's other star, Solange the cat. McEldowney developed his early artistic technique by obsessively plagiarizing his favorite cartoon, "Peanuts," in the margins of textbooks and spelling tests. He briefly majored in biology, then art, at Allegheny College, and then went to New York City's Juilliard School, where he studied the viola and graduated with a bachelor's and a master's degree in music. He studied and performed at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. McEldowney labored concurrently as a professional violist, music critic and cartoonist. His music articles and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines, and he was assistant editor of Opus, a classical music magazine. His cartoons have been published in magazines including Yankee, Opus, Pulse and Punch. In 1993, he created 9 Chickweed Lane, which quickly developed a strong following. The strip has received two Genesis Award Commendations for animal rights issues. McEldowney also creates the color web comic "Pibgorn" for comics.com. He lives in Florida with his wife and two daughters.

Demographic Group- Family, women, Adults, off beat

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