Jonathan Lemon

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Lemon speaking at the Silicon Valley Comic Con 2018

Jonathan Dee Lemon is an English-born American cartoonist and former musician. He is best known for drawing the Alley Oop comic strip.

Lemon was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England in 1965, and earned an art degree at the University of Brighton.

In 1984 he formed the pop band with guitarist Peter Pengwyn.[1] The band went on to record three albums and had modest indie chart success with their third single "I'm a Train".[2]

Two years later, Lemon joined The Chrysanthemums along with , leader of The Deep Freeze Mice, and Terry Burrows. A psychedelic art pop band with a large cult following almost entirely outside of the UK, they released four albums and four EPs.[3] In 2010, German music magazine MusikExpress placed them at number 23 in their list of the most under-rated bands of all time.[4]

Lemon began working as a cartoonist, first for Poot! Comic, and later relocated to California in 1992 where, as a political cartoonist, his work appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury and the Boston Globe amongst others. He is a member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists[5] and the National Cartoonist Society.[6]

Between 2003-2005 he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras.[7]

His long running comic strip was nominated for a Silver Reuben Award by the National Cartoonists Society in 2012 and 2014.[8]

In 2019, along with writer , he took over the drawing duties on the classic comic strip Alley Oop.[9]

His work has been exhibited at the Cartoon Art Museum[10] and the Huntington Beach Arts Center.[11]

Selected discography[]

  • Jesus Couldn't Drum:
    • Er...Something About Cows (LP, 1984)
    • Good Morning Mr. Square (LP, 1984)
    • Ruttling Orange Peel and Blind Lemon Pie (LP, 1985)
  • The Chrysanthemums:
    • Mouth Pain/Another Sacred Day (7" 1987)
    • Is That A Fish On Your Shoulder or are you just pleased to see me? (LP/CD 1987)
    • The **** Sessions (12" 1988)
    • Little Flecks Of Foam Around Barking (CD/2x LP 1988)
    • Picasso's Problem/Live at London Palladium (12" 1990)
    • Porcupine Quills (LP/CD 1991)
    • Odessey and Oracle (LP/CD 1992)
    • Chrysanthemums Go Germany/Insekt Insekt (LP/CD/Box 1995)

References[]

  1. ^ "Jesus Couldn't Drum". Discogs.
  2. ^ http://www.indiespinzone.com/bands/jesus.html
  3. ^ Stewart Mason, 'Yukio Yung', Allmusic (2006)[dead link]. Retrieved 25 September 2006.
  4. ^ "Musikexpress.de". Musikexpress.de. 17 March 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  5. ^ "AAEC".
  6. ^ "National Cartoonists Society".
  7. ^ "Peace Corps needs a few good geeks". The Mercury News. 2008-04-24. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  8. ^ "2015 NCS Awards: Pastis, Price lead divisional 'Silver Reuben' finalists". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  9. ^ Gustines, George Gene (26 October 2018). "Alley Oop Will Return (Spoiler Alert)". The New York Times.
  10. ^ "A Boy and His Tiger: A Tribute to Bill Watterson".
  11. ^ "The Wonderful World of Comics".

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