Violet's got company these days. After 14 years of producing her weekly comic strip "Violet Days," Duluth artist Chris Monroe is branching out with two new projects: a children's book and an exhibit ...

Chris Monroe hates endings. She doesn't like to be at a store when it's closing, a bar after last call, the Minnesota State Fair on its final night. When the artist decided to leave her day job at ...

Duluth artist Chris Monroe was sitting on the couch, watching cartoons with her then-teenage son Mickey ("that was our mother-son time") and musing on potential characters, when the phrase "Monkey ...

A visit to Chris Monroe's studio where she talks about the creative process and how being a... A visit to Chris Monroe's studio where she talks about the creative process and how being a children's ...

Chris Monroe passed away March 7 following an inspiring battle with metastatic breast cancer. Members of her family were by her bedside when she died. Chris spent her life doing what she could to make ...