Charlos Gary

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Charlos Gary (b. 1968) is an African-American cartoonist and comic strip author, best known for creating a series entitled Working It Out, a strip that deals with office politics in a format similar to Dilbert.

[edit] Biography

Charlos Gary was born in Boynton Beach (near West Palm Beach) and reared in Orlando, Florida. The middle child in a family of seven, Gary discovered an aptitude for art at an early age and pursued it as a career field while studying at The Ohio State University, and later at the University of Toledo.

His first semi-professional gig came at Ohio State, with a short-lived comic strip called State U. After graduating from Toledo, he began working as a graphic designer for various newspapers, often submitting his own political cartoons for publication.

In early 2001, as an editorial artist for the Chicago Tribune, Gary created his signature strip Working It Out.

[edit] Working It Out

As of March 2004, Working It Out currently runs in about 50 newspapers across the United States, typically in the business and financial sections.

The comic strip centers around a character named "Mr. Jamison" – a bushy-moustached, pencil-nosed low-level manager who seems to take delight in the suffering and mistreatment of his subordinates. Mr. Jamison frequently goes on a “power trip” over the most trivial of issues and often refers to his employees as “peons”. The overall theme is a workplace tug-of-war that pits the weasel-like management staff against the water-cooler backstabbing of their hard(-ly) working, expendable employees. Gary is set to launch his newly syndicated comic strip, called Cafe Con Leche, in April 2007. Cafe Con Leche is about an inter-racial couple getting to know each other's cultural backgound.