Kevin Fagan (born June 22, 1956) is an American

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

and creator of the syndicated

comic strip A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st ...

Drabble A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length."Winners ...

''. Fagan was born in

Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...

. He attended

Saddleback College Saddleback College (Saddleback) is a public community college in Mission Viejo, California. It is part of the California Community College system and awards over 300 associate degrees, academic certificates, and occupational skills awards in 19 ...

, and later transferred to

California State University, Sacramento California State University, Sacramento (CSUS, Sacramento State, or informally Sac State) is a public university in Sacramento, California. Founded in 1947 as Sacramento State College, it is the eleventh oldest school in the 23-campus California ...

as a history major. While there, he submitted his work to the student newspaper, the ''State Hornet''. Shortly afterwards, he was discovered by ''

The Sacramento Union ''The Sacramento Union'' was a daily newspaper founded in 1851 in Sacramento, California. It was the oldest daily newspaper west of the Mississippi River before it closed its doors after 143 years in January 1994, no longer able to compete with ' ...

'', and was subsequently offered a syndication contract by

United Media United Media was a large Column (periodical), editorial column and comic strip newspaper print syndication, syndication service based in the United States, owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, that operated from 1978 to 2011. It syndicated 150 comi ...

United Feature Syndicate United Feature Syndicate (UFS) is a large American editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1919. Originally part of E. W. Scripps Company, it was part of United Media (along wit ...

, and he dropped out of CSUS in 1978, just 3 units short of his degree, to take up cartooning full-time. ''Drabble'' debuted nationally on March 5, 1979, when he was 22 years old. Fagan still draws each and every comic by hand, including all of the lettering and borders. His strip appears in over 100 papers worldwide and online. Eleven ''Drabble'' books (most recently "All Wally" in 2017) and a line of greeting cards have been published. Since 1979, ''Drabble'' has run daily with the exception of one week in 1983 and one in 2008, due to Fagan's severe illness. He is married to Cristi, with three children: Sean, Kelsey, and Brian; the family currently resides in

Mission Viejo, California Mission Viejo ( ; corruption of ''Misión Vieja'', Spanish for "Old Mission") is a commuter city in the Saddleback Valley in Orange County, California, United States. Mission Viejo is considered one of the largest master-planned communities eve ...

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Official ''Drabble'' website
1956 births Living people American comic strip cartoonists Artists from Los Angeles People from Mission Viejo, California Saddleback College alumni California State University, Sacramento alumni {{comic-strip-creator-stub