Brooke McEldowney is responsible for 9 Chickweed Lane, a print comic strip, and also for Pibgorn, a webcomic. 9 Chickweed Lane has been syndicated by United Media 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.[1]
Born in 1952 in Charleston, West Virginia, McEldowney now lives in Maine. He attended Allegheny College, majoring in Arts. He then went to the Juilliard School in New York, where he studied the viola and earned a master's degree in music.
He has worked as a violist, a music critic, and as a professional cartoonist.