project for Korean television. A celibate and emotionally somewhat distant man all his life, he wrote a piano piece for the production entitled “Reverie” that sends people into a fiery romantic flurry upon hearing it. After meeting his assigned assistant Nan-Lin Peel began an awkward courtship (which included auditioning and performing together for a stage production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of The Guard), he finally professed his love for her despite his self-depreciating insecurities and age and later married her. Nan-Lin Peel - a Korean-American woman in her 30s and Arthur's wife. Originally was hired by Xiulan to be an assistant to manage Arthur Peel (and partly as a joke since they both share the same surname), she became the inspiration behind his erotically-charged “Reverie” and, after a quick if complicatedly frustrating courtship, became his wife despite their age differences. Esme Meadow - A policewoman who is romantically interested in Thorax. He claims to be married to her. Zofia Przyjukylska- A Polish double-agent during WW2 who becomes romantically involved with Thorax and to whom she becomes engaged. She is killed during the war by a Luftwaffe strafing attack. Awards 9 Chickweed Lane won the National Cartoonists Society Award for Newspaper Strips in 2005. It has also received 2 Genesis Award Commendations, for bringing attention to animal rights in a sequence involving the adoption of a greyhound. Spin-off Brooke McEldowney is also the creator of the webcomic Pibgorn, a spin-off. The strips appear to share the same universe, with the character Thorax appearing in both series regularly, and almost the entire cast of Pibgorn showing up as guests at two Chickweed weddings in the strips of October 29, 2007 and August 28, 2017. Collections 9 Chickweed Lane has been published in several hardcopy collections, most available from Pib Press. These include: Hallmarks of Felinity (Out of print) Out Whom Shall We Gross? (Year One, 1993–1994) Sonata for Piano and Armpit (Year Two, 1994–1995) The Day my Puberty Detonated (Year Three, 1995–1996) Rita Hayworth, the Father of Relativity (Year Four, 1996–1997) CRUD From Outer Space, and Other Causes of Postnasal Drip (Year Five, 1997-1998) Cat Breath Takes No Prisoners (Year Six, 1998-1999) On Alternate Thursdays, I Surrender My Body to SATAN (Year Seven, 1999-2000) Dumpster God (Year Eight, 2000-2001) We'll Always Have Brussels, or The Bösendorfer Heard Round the World Edie Ernst, USO Singer – Allied Spy Controversy over anti-Asian