I love ideas. My whole life revolves around ideas. But the follow-through is the problem. And so doing a single-panel cartoon where I just tell a joke really suits my personality.
Dave Coverly's Speed Bump appears in more than 400 newspapers and websites and was twice awarded Best Newspaper Panel by the National Cartoonists Society. He began cartooning as an undergraduate student at Eastern Michigan University, where he drew a comic panel for The Eastern Echo and earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and creative writing. He continued his cartooning in graduate school at Indiana University, where his panel in the Indiana Daily Student won national awards.
He has served as an art director for a public relations firm and as editorial cartoonist for the Battle Creek Enquirer and the Bloomington Herald-Times. His cartoons have appeared in many publications including Esquire, The Saturday Evening Post, The New Yorker, and Parade.
His books include Speed Bump: Cartoons for Idea People, named Humor Book of the Year in independent publishing by Foreword magazine; and Laughter is the Best Medicine, a collection of his cartoons featuring doctors and patients.
In 2009, Coverly was given the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, the highest honor awarded by The National Cartoonists Society.
