9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney
Type: Comic Strip
Frequency: Daily
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Central character Edda Burber is dancing to the beat of a different drummer these days as McEldowney focuses 9 Chickweed Lane more on the story of a young woman who moves away from home to perform with a prestigious metropolitan ballet company in New York City. Although it may seem like a completely new strip, 9 Chickweed Lane is peopled with very familiar friends, like furry feline Solange, and Edda's childhood friend and recent love interest, Amos.
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Brooke McEldowney stands, when his posture is good, at 6 feet 8 inches tall. One of the curiosities of his life has been that passersby perceive this as a contrivance to attract attention, like face-painting or playing a kazoo.
"How tall are you?" people ask him in elevators, making him feel awkward and a little passive-aggressive.
"In heels or flats?" he answers, and steps off at the next floor, no matter what the floor is, because dramatic exits are everything.
"You ever play basketball?" strangers nearly always inquire.
"No. Viola," he says, not to be confusing but to tell the truth – even though his answer succeeds in confusing and, thereby, affords him a little dollop of pleasure.
He has often noticed that, when people encounter him, their first question is not, "Hey! Are you a cartoonist?"
"That's right," he can imagine himself saying, in a dangerous, he-man, Sgt. Rock sort of way, "and I can tear your head off with a flick of my wrist."
But they never ask that. He thinks it's because of his glasses. People who wear glasses just don't look like the sorts who would tear your head off. They look like the sorts who would stamp your book at the library and whisper what the late penalty will be.
Even so, nobody ever says, "Hey, do you stamp books at the library?"
"That's right," he would say. "And the late penalty is I'll tear your head off."
Instead, they say, "You ever play basketball?"
"No. Viola," he says, and gets his feeble kicks from watching the confusion.
Brooke McEldowney is 6 feet 8 inches tall. He never played basketball, and never wants to. He is a musician and a cartoonist. However, he will not answer for his actions if your books become overdue.
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Meet the Cast of 9 Chickweed Lane
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- Edda Burber Fresh to New York City, Edda is a young, newly employed dancer in aprestigious, metropolitan ballet company, embarking on a life of herown, with her own loves, hopes andambitions, and her own tax forms.
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- Amos Edda’s friend since childhood, Amos studies cello at the Juilliard School, inthe same performing arts complexwhere Edda dances professionally.One of the biggest and newest conflicts in Amos’ friendship with Eddais that they have also fallen in love,and handle the situation rather badly.
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- Seth Seth Appleby, a native of Waco, Texas, is Edda’s dance partner in the ballet company, and the personwhose apartment she shares. An unabashed wearerof the Green Carnation, Seth is a romantic, plunginginto love at the drop of a hat. He looks upon Eddaand Amos, as he does all his friends, both maternallyand with the protective instincts of an Irish Wolfhound.
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- Juliette Edda’s mother, Juliette, was for many years aprofessor of biology at a university in NewHampshire, until she gave in to her oldestpipe dream, quit her job and bought a farm.
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- Gran Gran lives with Juliette, her daughter,and assists in running the farm, althoughshe finds livestock disappointingly unresponsive to guilt as a motivator.
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- Solange Residing in New York with Edda,Solange brings feline entropyto pre-existing human disarray.
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- Thorax Gran’s beau, and the former owner of Juliette’s farm, Thorax sells strangegoods and services from roadsidestands when he isn’t ruminating on hisalien origins or dusting off the quantumanomaly in the tractor shed. Hemoves through life as if from dimensionto dimension, and often enoughappears in other cartoons.
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