Speed Bump Explained

Speed Bump
Author:Dave Coverly
Status:Concluded daily & Sunday single-panel strip
Syndicate:Creators Syndicate
Genre:Humor

Speed Bump is a single-panel comic series by Dave Coverly, syndicated since 1994 by Creators Syndicate.

Describing his cartoons, Coverly commented, "Basically," he says, "if life were a movie, these would be the outtakes."

Speed Bump is published in more than 400 newspapers and websites, including The Washington Post, Toronto Globe and Mail, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune, Indianapolis Star, Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Cincinnati Enquirer, New Orleans Times-Picayune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Vancouver Sun, The Baltimore Sun and The Arizona Republic.[1]

Awards

Coverly won the National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1994 and 2002, with an additional nomination for 2000. Coverly won the Society's Reuben Award in 2008.[2]

Books

TitlePublication MonthPublisherISBN
Speed Bump May 2000
Speed Bump: Cartoons for Idea People November 2004ECW Press
Just One %$#@ Speed Bump After Another... More CartoonsNovember 2005ECW Press

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.creators.com/comics/speed-bump-about.html Creators Syndicate: "About Speed Bump"
  2. http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2009/05/speed_bump_creator_and_plainwe.html Jones, Al. "Speed Bump" creator and Plainwell High School grad Dave Coverly named cartoonist of the year", Kalamazoo Gazette, May 27, 2010.