Don Asmussen was born in 1967 in Rhode Island, a state so small someone had to leave so that Don could fit. But he still didn't fit (metaphorically), and started a long journey through newspapers that included the Portland (Maine) Press Herald, The Detroit News, and The San Diego Union-Tribune. By 1997, he ended up at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he created a weekly strip called "The San Francisco Comic Strip," which trashed everyone in the city but Don himself (he's sensitive to self-criticism).
In 1998, he was approached by Time magazine, for which he created a regular comic strip which ran until late 2001.
In 2003, with action heroes running for office, Don realized politics had finally caught up with his cartooning, and he launched "Bad Reporter." The line between fact and fiction would be forever blurred, but not the punchline.
