Brooke McEldowney
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Brooke McEldowney is the creator of the newspaper comic strip 9 Chickweed Lane and the webcomic Pibgorn.
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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.[citation needed] He has worked as a violist, music critic, and cartoonist. He was assistant editor and contributing cartoonist for Opus,[citation needed] a classical music magazine, and has had cartoons published in Yankee and Pulse[citation needed]. His first cartoon sale was to Punch[citation needed].
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
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- ↑ 9 Chickweed Lane at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. {http://www.webcitation.org/6bFzUmWSw Archived] from the original on September 3, 2015.
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- Chickweed Café: McEldowney's "9 Chickweed Lane" blog (accessed 2015-12-16)
- Pib Press publishes the "Pibgorn" books.
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