Chad Carpenter

The Official Short but Sweet Bio of Chad Carpenter

Having no other marketable talent, Chad decided to take a crack at a life-long ambition of being a newspaper cartoonist. The year was 1991 and he had just moved back to his home state of Alaska after living in Sarasota, Florida for three years. It was while in Sarasota that Chad became greatly inspired and personally advised by two of the comic strip greats - Mike Peters (Mother Goose & Grimm) & Dik Browne (Hagar the Horrible).

Shortly After arriving back in Alaska, armed with little more than 36 sample strips, a whole lot of ignorance and a burning desire to doodle for a living, Chad went to the Anchorage Daily News to pedal his wares. The features editor took one look at “Tundra” and said “Eh, maybe we’ll give it a try.”

Fortunately, they actually did.

Three decades later, TUNDRA can now be seen in over 500 newspapers.

Some of these papers include the L.A. Times, the Seattle Times, the Denver Post, the Pittsburgh Post, the San Francisco Chronicle as well as newspapers throughout Europe, Jamaica & Trinidad.

TUNDRA is considered to be the most successful self-syndicated comic strip in history, which has also helped Chad avoid a job for these past 33 years.

Chad and his wife Karen are currently busy working on the 33rd TUNDRA book as well as the latest movie, calendars, shirts, greeting cards and anything else they can make a buck on.