About Kit 'N' Carlyle

Kit is a single working woman, Carlyle is her spunky, mischievous kitten and their lives together provide the humor for the daily panel Kit 'N' Carlyle. Created by Larry Wright, editorial cartoonist for The Detroit News, the comic has been distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association since 1980. Adorable kitten Carlyle shreds the furniture, gets into mischief with Kit's niece Carly and glares at Kit's boyfriends. Few of her dates survive under such intense scrutiny, and those who do endure home-cooked meals so awful, even Carlyle turns up his nose at them.

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, where he also became night editor and editorial cartoonist. After 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. 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 associate creative director of the paper's website. Wright is a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He lives in Michigan with his wife, Naoko and cat, Domino. The Wrights have a son, a daughter and four grandchildren.