Born in the swamps of Southern New Jersey, Pab Sungenis developed a childhood fascination with cartooning and drew a daily strip for his own amusement for two years before realizing he couldn’t draw. He wound up in broadcasting, worked for numerous stations including WSBU, WOND, WMGM, WSKR, WBNJ, WWBZ, and WKTU. He describes his drawing ability as like that of “a mentally challenged rhinoceros on a Ny-Quil bender”, but thanks to the wonders of photo-manipulation and computer image editing, on February 8, 2006 he found himself creating The New Adventures of Queen Victoria, which has appeared ever since, first on Comicssherpa.com., and now in online syndication with gocomics.com.
Stuff Pab thinks you might find interesting
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Just want to say thanks. I enjoy your cartoon strip and your blogs. I wish you well and speedy recovery. As a poor artist and a cancer survivor I understand your story on many levels. I particularly liked your take on Democrats acting like an abused wife.
I did not realise you’d been ill. My “sister in law” is a fine example of a cancer survivor, still working hard and never complaining about it. Life goes on, as my mother would say. We enjoy your work and want to see it for a long time to come. Any more ideas in the pipeline?
I enjoy NAQV every day, but am a bit puzzled about the JQ Adams series. The real guy was a lot more interesting than your “9 year old founding Father.” His dad sent him to St. Petersburg at 12 to be US consul, and he was reappointed there a few years later by President Madison, successfully enough that, according to his descendant Henry Adams’ History of the United States (I know, 19th century best-seller, a geek classic), US trade was thought valuable enough that Russia was willing to go to war with Napoleon. He also was President, taught at Harvard, founded the National Arboretum, and defended the slaves who killed the slavers on the Amistad. Fighting slavery when most of the country didn’t want that was Adams’ cause, and ought to be remembered.
Cheers,
Bill Price