Grand Avenue stars Kate Macfarlane, an avid sports fan who powerwalks to stay in shape. Not your typical cookie-baking granny, Grandma Kate has her hands full with this terrific twosome, who are best buddies even though their personalities clash. Gabby is an ambitious, newspaper-reading little girl who plans to become a billionaire before she's 30. Her brother Michael is a more sensitive soul who prefers riding his skateboard or performing scenes from Shakespeare to just about anything else.

In 1998, Breen won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. The Religion Communicator's Council honored Grand Avenue with the 1999 Wilbur Award. Breen also won the Scripps Howard Foundation's Charles M. Schulz Award for best college cartoonist and the John Locher Award for outstanding college editorial cartoonist, both in 1991. Breen graduated from the University of California at Riverside, where he did cartoons for his school paper. In 1994, Breen was about to become a high school history teacher when the Asbury Park Press offered him a job in their art department. He was the paper's editorial cartoonist from 1996 to 2001. Breen is currently editorial cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Breen, his wife Cathy and their two young sons live in San Diego.

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