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Dustin (comic Strip)
''Dustin'' is a daily comic strip created by Steve Kelley (cartoonist), Steve Kelley, editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Jeff Parker (editorial cartoonist), Jeff Parker, editorial cartoonist for ''Florida Today''. It is carried by King Features Syndicate and debuted on January 4, 2010. ''Dustin'' won the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip in 2010, and again in 2017 . Focusing on the present boomerang generation and post-2008 recession period, it also deals with varying topics from everyday life and social commentary. ''Dustin'' was initially planned as a collaboration between Kelley and Steve Breen, who was Kelley's successor as the staff editorial cartoonist of the ''U-T San Diego, San Diego Union Tribune'' after Kelley was fired from that position in 2001. Breen later decided not to proceed with ''Dustin'', leading to a 2008 lawsuit by Kelley against the owners of the ''Union Tribune'', alleging that Breen had been i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Kelley (cartoonist)
Steve Kelley of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is a syndicated editorial cartoonist, comic strip creator, comedian, and writer. He has previously served as staff political cartoonist for The San Diego Union / The San Diego Union-Tribune and The New Orleans Times-Picayune. He began work at the Post-Gazette in November 2018. Kelley is co-creator and writer of the award-winning syndicated comic strip '' Dustin'' which King Features Syndicate distributes to more than 370 newspaper clients and websites. Born in Richmond, Virginia, Kelley graduated from the Collegiate School, and was an honors graduate of Dartmouth College in 1981, where he drew cartoons for both the '' Daily Dartmouth'' and ''The Dartmouth Review''. Career Kelley began his journalism career in 1981 at the ''San Diego Union Tribune''. After two decades, he moved to the ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'' in 2002 following an incident at the ''Union Tribune'' involving a cartoon he had submitted to his editors, depicting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |