Julie Larson

Julie Harris Larson (September 20, 1959 – August 17, 2022) was an American cartoonist, most well known for her single panel comic strip The Dinette Set. The panel began in 1990 under the title Suburban Torture, and was syndicated from 1997 to 2015. The comic features the Penny family and their banal existence in American suburbia.

Larson played competitive tennis until college. She earned a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and spent the next eight years working in the design field. In 1989, after the first of her three daughters was born, Larson and her family moved from Chicago to the suburbs. This is why she put the curtain down on Crustwood and "The Dinette Set " in November 2015 to rest and retire. Larson died August 17, 2022. She was 62 years old.