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Kit 'n' Carlyle is one of many bright spots in Larry Wright's career in cartooning. He has cartooned since the age of 10, when he drew comic books for his friends in Detroit, then for his Allen Park, Mich., school newspaper. After graduating from high school, Wright expanded his cartooning skills in the Army. He studied Chinese, was sent to Okinawa as an interpreter and began drawing a strip called "Uncle Milton" for the Okinawa Morning Star. When Wright was discharged, he remained in Okinawa to become night editor of the Star. He also drew a daily strip and Sunday editorial cartoon for four years before returning to the Detroit area. He spent 11 years at the Detroit Free Press, then moved to the Detroit News. He created his first syndicated comic, "Wright Angles," for United Feature Syndicate in 1977. When Wright created Kit 'n' Carlyle, he made Carlyle a more benign, kittenish version of "Motley," the cat in "Wright Angles," who was based on the real Motley, Wright's daughter's cat. Today, Carlyle's personality is based on several cats Wright has owned through the years. Wright has been editorial/op-ed page cartoonist at The Detroit News since 1976, currently drawing three editorial cartoons a week. He has served at the paper as associate editor of the editorial page/graphics, assistant graphics editor and, since 1995, associate creative director of The Detroit News' Web site, detnews.com. Wright is a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He lives in Canton, Mich., with his wife Naoko and cat, Domino. The Wrights have a son, a daughter and four grandchildren.
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