Neal Rubin

rdf:langString Neal Rubin

rdf:langString Neal Anthony Rubin

rdf:langString Neal Anthony Rubin

rdf:langString Southern California

rdf:langString writes Gil Thorp comic strip

rdf:langString American

rdf:langString columnist

rdf:langString Neal Rubin (born 1955) is an American cartoonist and writer. He is currently a columnist for The Detroit Free Press and writes the nationally syndicated comic strip Gil Thorp. He previously spent 15 years as a feature writer and columnist for the Detroit Free Press but left to write for The Detroit News. He previously wrote features for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and was a sports writer for the Las Vegas Sun and the Greeley Tribune. After 22 years at The Detroit News, he returned to the Detroit Free Press on April 17, 2022. He was born in Southern California and grew up in California and Colorado. He attended the University of Northern Colorado and later earned a graduate degree from Michigan State University. He has lived in Michigan since 1984. He has been the author of the Gil Thorp comic strip since 2004, and is the third author in the strip's 50+-year history. Rubin appears as himself in the 2007 Elmore Leonard novel Up in Honey's Room. He had a small speaking role (credited as Neal Anthony Rubin) as a reporter in the 2011 movie The Ides of March, starring George Clooney and Ryan Gosling. He lives with his wife and two sons in Farmington Hills, Michigan.