Brevity (comic strip)

Brevity
Author(s)	Guy Endore-Kaiser & Rodd Perry Dan Thompson
Website	www.gocomics.com/brevity
Current status/schedule	Current Gag-a-day panel
Launch date	January 3, 2005; 20 years ago (January 3, 2005)
Syndicate(s)	United Feature Syndicate / Andrews McMeel Syndication
Publisher(s)	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Genre(s)	humor

Brevity is a single-panel newspaper comic strip created by Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry, and currently drawn by Dan Thompson.

Publication history

Brevity originally began on Comics Sherpa (a site which helps beginning comic strips make their work public over the web).[1] Endore-Kaiser cited Gary Larson's The Far Side as an inspiration. The strip was originally intended to be called Cow Tools, in homage to a notorious Far Side cartoon, but the authors were forced to change it after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from lawyers representing Larson.[2] The strip debuted with United Feature Syndicate in 55 newspapers on January 3, 2005. Today, Brevity is published in over 130 newspapers in the US and Canada.^[citation needed] There are currently four published collections and one treasury.

In the past few years GoComics.com has allowed visitors to submit comments on each strip.

Books

There are four collections and one treasury published by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Title	Release Date	ISBN
Brevity	September 1, 2006	ISBN 978-0-7407-6042-6
Brevity 2	August 1, 2007	ISBN 978-0-7407-6840-8
Brevity Remix: A Brevity Treasury	June 1, 2008	ISBN 978-0-7407-7228-3
Brevity 3	October 21, 2008	ISBN 978-0-7407-7360-0
Brevity 4	April 21, 2009	ISBN 978-0-7407-7361-7

References

1. Williams, Greg (28 September 2003). "High Hopes". Tampa Tribune.
2. Wineke, William R. (3 January 2005). "Cartoon with shades of 'Far Side' debuts today, also 'Mutts' is added to State Journal pages by popular demand". Wisconsin State Journal. In fact, Endore-Kaiser and Perry, 34, originally wanted to call their cartoon "Cow Tools," after a famous Larson cartoon, but that proved too much for Larson's lawyers, who sent them a cease-and-desist letter.

External links

• Official website