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About the Author

Dave Coverly, a native of Plainwell, Michigan, is the creator of the cartoon panel “Speed Bump”, which runs internationally in hundreds of newspapers and websites, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Globe & Mail (Toronto), and the Detroit Free Press. His work was named “Best in Newspaper Panels” by the National Cartoonists Society in 1995, 2003, 2014 and 2022. In 2009 the same organization gave him its highest honor, the prestigious Reuben Award, for “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year”.

His cartoons are published by several greeting card companies, which include American Greetings, Sellers, NobleWorks, and Woodmansterne (UK).

Coverly’s cartoons have also appeared in The New Yorker, USA Today,The New York Times, Newsweek, Esquire, Ranger Rick, Jr., and have been a regular feature in Parade. He is also the principle cartoonist for BarkBox. He has published several picture books and comic collections with Macmillan and Andrews McMeel.

Coverly earned his BS with a double major in Imaginative Writing and Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University, and received his MA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. In 2011, he was asked to give the commencement address at EMU, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts.

He lives with his wife in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has two adult daughters.