Julie Larson
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Julie Larson is an American cartoonist who draws the single panel comic strip
The Dinette Set
. The panel began in 1990 under the title Suburban Torture, and has been syndicated since 1997. The comic features the Penny family and their banal existence in American suburbia; it is distributed by Creators Syndicate
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. Drawing was her hobby.
Julie played competitive tennis
until college. She earned a BS in Architecture
from the University of Illinois
and spent the next eight years working in the design field. In 1989, after her first of three daughters was born, Julie and her family moved from Chicago to the suburbs.
Julie began writing The Dinette Set comic in 1990, then called Suburban Torture, offering a satire on middle class culture. The Dinette Set became syndicated in 1997.
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
The Dinette Set
The Dinette Set
The Dinette Set is a single-panel newspaper comic by artist Julie Larson. Larson's comic began as Suburban Torture in the Los Angeles Reader and other alternative newspapers in 1990...
. The panel began in 1990 under the title Suburban Torture, and has been syndicated since 1997. The comic features the Penny family and their banal existence in American suburbia; it is distributed by Creators Syndicate
Creators Syndicate
Creators Syndicate is an independent distributor of comic strips and syndicated columns for daily newspapers. It was founded in 1987 by Richard S. Newcombe, and is based in Los Angeles. Creators was one of the first syndicates to allow its clients to maintain creative control of their material...
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About Julie Larson
Julie Larson grew up in a family of five kids in Lincoln, IllinoisLincoln, Illinois
Lincoln is a city in Logan County, Illinois, United States. It is the only town in the United States that was named for Abraham Lincoln before he became president; he practiced law there from 1847 to 1859. First settled in the 1830s, Lincoln is home to three colleges and two prisons. The three...
. Drawing was her hobby.
Julie played competitive tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
until college. She earned a BS in Architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
from the University of Illinois
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
and spent the next eight years working in the design field. In 1989, after her first of three daughters was born, Julie and her family moved from Chicago to the suburbs.
Julie began writing The Dinette Set comic in 1990, then called Suburban Torture, offering a satire on middle class culture. The Dinette Set became syndicated in 1997.
External links
- The Dinette Set on Creators.com- updated daily
- TheDinetteSet.com - Official site