Brooke McEldowney is responsible for 9 Chickweed Lane

9 Chickweed Lane

9 Chickweed Lane is an American comic strip written and drawn by Brooke McEldowney following the fortunes of the women of three generations of the Burber family — Edna, Juliette, and Edda — as they try to make their way in the world. 9 Chickweed Lane is the address of their former family home. ...

, a print comic strip, and also for Pibgorn

Pibgorn (webcomic)

Pibgorn is a webcomic by Brooke McEldowney that began in early 2002, ended its run on Comics.com on April 18, 2007, and has resumed with GoComics.com on May 14, 2007. The title character is a fairy whose adventures span the fantasy and real worlds...

, a webcomic. 9 Chickweed Lane has been syndicated by United Media

United Media

United Media is a large editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. It syndicates 150 comics and editorial columns worldwide. Its core business is the United Feature Syndicate and the Newspaper Enterprise Association...

 since 1993, and has one published collection, Hallmarks of Felinity.

9 Chickweed Lane won the Best Newspaper Comic award at the 2006 National Cartoonists Society Awards.

The first Pibgorn story, Pibgorn: The Girl in the Coffee Cup, was released as a graphic novel in 2006. "Pibgorn Rep: A Midsummer Night's Dream" was released in 2008. Edie Ernst: USO Singer, Allied Spy appeared in March 2011.

Biographical information

Born in 1952 in Charleston

Charleston, West Virginia

Charleston is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha Rivers in Kanawha County. As of the 2010 census, it has a population of 51,400, and its metropolitan area 304,214. It is the county seat of Kanawha County.Early...

, West Virginia

West Virginia

West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...

, McEldowney now lives in Maine

Maine

Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...

. He attended Allegheny College

Allegheny College

Allegheny College is a private liberal arts college located in northwestern Pennsylvania in the town of Meadville. Founded in 1815, the college has about 2,100 undergraduate students.-Early history:...

, majoring in Arts. He then went to the Juilliard School

Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...

 in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, where he studied the viola

Viola

The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

and earned a master's degree in music.

He has worked as a violist, a music critic, and as a professional cartoonist.

External links

• Chickweed Café: McEldowney's "9 Chickweed Lane" blog (accessed 2011-09-18)
• PIBGORN: Ephemera and Reckoning: McEldowney's "Pibgorn" blog (accessed 2011-09-18)
• The Unofficial Pibgorn Tribute Site (accessed 2011-09-18)
• The (Unofficial) 9 Chickweed Lane Tribute Page (accessed 2011-09-18)
• Pib Press publishes the Pibgorn books.