For more than 15 years, Jimmy Johnson has entertained readers with Arlo & Janis, the popular comic strip about a couple of '60 kids trying to keep a youthful outlook on life as they enter middle age. Still romantic after all these years, Arlo and Janis are dreamers who still have to do the household chores.

Johnson's unique humor and remarkable insight have made Arlo & Janis, distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association, one of America's favorite comic couples. Taking a funny, realistic look at marriage and parenthood, Johnson portrays the everyday lives of Arlo, Janis, and their adolescent son, Gene. As parents raising a teenager, Arlo and Janis have to face the fact that they're not the young ones anymore. A warm, offbeat family comedy with an adult perspective, Arlo & Janis has earned a loyal following of married couples, working parents and people who enjoy Johnson's dry, incisive wit. Johnson frequently finds himself inundated with e-mail praising his lovable baby boomers.

An Alabama native born in the last days of the Truman administration, Johnson studied journalism at Auburn University and worked as a newspaperman and editorial cartoonist. His editorial cartooning for The Jackson (Miss.) Daily News was honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. His original comic strips were the focus of a groundbreaking art exhibit at The Bryant Galleries in Jackson, Miss. Johnson works out of his spare bedroom and lives and sails his boat, Willie and Joe, in the Tennessee River Valley.