Meet the cartoonist behind the new cartoon you will see in Comics beginning Thursday, May 19, 2016'Adrienne Herrick, the creator of Dung and Dunger:

I was born in the Catskills of upstate New York in l956. Moved to Oregon with my family in 1971 and graduated from Ashland High School in l974. I entered Bassist Institute of Fashion in Portland later that year and received my associate's degree in fashion design.

I worked in custom sewing and children's nightwear for the next few years, married a man that wanted to go into the restaurant business so we embarked on that. The desire to create spilled over, and I made numerous stained glass projects and soft sculptures that we used to decorate our restaurant.

The marriage ended and I moved on to become a licensed electrologist. I re-married and my husband and I moved to Sierra Vista, Arizona where I set up an electrology clinic and operated that for 10 years. It paid well and allowed me to support the bead addiction that had crept up on me. I always had some type of creative project going, including writing two books. One was entitled "The Lighter and Darker Side of Unwanted Hair" drawing from my experiences with unwanted hair and the different removal techniques. The second one was a fiction entitled "AWOL in Cochise County" about 3 older women and a cat that go on a crazy adventure into Skeleton Canyon and get into all kinds of trouble, especially with their husbands. Sadly, I did not find a publisher on that and it sits waiting to be discovered.

My husband and I moved to Silver City in 2006, where he went to work at Ford and I became a Realtor. The property we purchased has a portion of the Big Ditch carving through and my newest passion was picking up tumbled glass from there and, using copper foil and wire wrapping techniques, I made dangling discards. My business cards read, "Glass With a Past," and I sold lots of work at the various venues here in Silver City.

My desire to make something out of nothing might well be what attracted me to the humble dung beetle. The first time I saw one rolling his little ball, it was love at first sight.

I was mesmerized with how hard he worked until he came to a hole in the sand and disappeared. Bingo, this little scarab deserved some attention. I hope you will join me in pursuing the Dunger family as they roll through their daily lives in my new comic stripG