Chris Monroe

Christine Monroe is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and author best known for her children’s book series “Monkey With A Tool Belt.” She created the weekly comic strip “Violet Days,” which appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Duluth News Tribune. "Violet Days" began in 1996 and ran weekly for 22 years. Her comic has been published in Funny Times, Ripsaw, the Funny Pages, Zenith City Arts, Madcap, Twin Cities Reader, City Pages, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Transistor, and Ruminator. An anthology of her comic strips, “Ultra Violet: 10 Years of Violet Days” was published in 2004.