The teen-oriented Sunday strip provides readers with succinct illustrated biographies of contemporary celebrities such as Avril Lavigne, Tony Hawk, Orlando Bloom, and Bob Dylan.
It appears in such publications as the New York Daily News, the Boston Herald, the Toronto Sun, Hong Kong's Daily Young Post, India's Mail Today, Tokyo's Sunday Mainichi, the Bangkok Post Student Weekly, and South Africa's People Magazine.
[citation needed] Each strip is a collage-like assembly of informative text and multiple illustrations of the subject at various stages of his or her career.
The first one was a United Feature Syndicate strip called Biography, which McGarry took over from John Roman[3] as creator on May 14, 1989.
[5] Then, from 1993 to 1996, McGarry did another similar strip, called Pop Culture, which ran in the British newspaper Today.