Mike Thompson joins Steve Breen on Grande Avenue
Skip to commentsWhat started as informal brainstorming sessions between friends has now become a formal partnership on Steve Breen’s Grande Avenue comic strip. As of January 1st of this year, Detroit Free Press editorial cartoonist Mike Thompson is being credited for his work on the strip which began over the last couple of years.
Steve tells me that he and Mike would hang out at AAEC conventions and during one convention, “I told [Mike] I had to go back to the hotel room to work on GA and he came along and offered some good gags. I was pretty impressed with his understanding of the characters and his talent for brainstorming and idea generation. I was looking for help with the strip because I was starting to also do children’s books ( this was around 05 or 06) so it worked out nicely.”
The current workload of writing and art is shared by both cartoonists.
Grande Avenue is a strip about a grandma tasked with raising two rambunctious twins.
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