Neal Rubin
Neal Rubin has been a columnist with the Detroit News since 2000. His column appears four days a week and typically offers a light-hearted look at life in metro Detroit. As a longtime reader and fan of the strip, Rubin joined the Gil Thorp team in 2004. He is the third author in the strip's 49-year history. Gil Thorp is syndicated by Tribune Media Services. Before 2000, Rubin spent 15 years as a feature writer and columnist with the Detroit Free Press, where his greatest achievement was getting banned by the World Wrestling Federation.
Rubin moved to Detroit in August 1984, after writing features for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and sports for the Las Vegas Sun and Greeley (Colo.) Daily Tribune.
Rubin grew up in Southern California and Colorado. He attended the University of Northern Colorado on a 7-card stud scholarship and later earned a graduate degree from Michigan State University.
Rod Whigham has a distinguished 25-year career as a comic book artist and commercial illustrator for Marvel and DC Comics and virtually every other comics publisher in the United States. Among the titles Whigham has worked on are G.I. Joe, Star Trek, Men in Black, the Terminator, Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Punisher, The Justice League, The Flash and many others. His graphic novels include "Lightrunner," a science-fiction adventure he co-wrote; "Team Yankee;" and most recently a 145-page comics adaptation of Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" for BPVP and Penguin Books. He has also produced art for multiple trading-card series, as well.
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