Today’s Guest: Terri Libenson, cartoonist, “The Pajama Diaries”
The Pajama Diaries by Terri LibensonTerri Libenson is creator of “The Pajama Diaries” daily comic strip
My mother’s maiden name was Kaplan. My favorite person in the whole world—after mom, of course—was my grandfather, Sam Kaplan. I even convinced my wife to give my son “Kaplan” as his middle name.
So I must admit a touch of prejudice in reading cartoonist Terri Libenson’s daily strip, “The Pajama Diaries.” How could I resist the story of a family of Kaplans as told by someone who grew up in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania? That’s where my Kaplans are from, too.
All that, and the fact that “The Pajama Diaries” makes me laugh.
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TERRI LIBENSON podcast excerpt: “I’ve always drawn and I gravitated toward cartooning at a very young age. What inspired me was ‘Peanuts’; I used to draw Snoopy and Woodstock all the time. My brother also had a lot of MAD magazines and I used to read those over and over again.”
Before launching “The Pajama Diaries” in 2002, Terri was a writer and illustrator for American Greetings. She also did another strip for two years, “Got a Life.”
This summer, Terri is taking the Kaplan family back to a time before Jill and Rob had kids. It’s a chance to fill in parts of the strip’s back story and probably give the artist a change of pace.
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