Meet John Hambrock, creator of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee—the daily & Sunday comic about a ten-year-old inventor whose experiments collide with family life, a grumpy grandpa, and a very helpful lab rat named Joules. We talk origin stories, writing science gags, collaborating with Anne Morse Hambrock (the strip’s colorist and contributing writer), and the craft behind a great punchline.

⏱ Chapters
0:00 Cold open
1:00 Intro
3:30 Origins
8:00 Building Edison’s world
16:00 Process & coloring
23:00 Reader favorites
29:00 Craft talk
33:00 What’s next
38:00 Outro

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🏆 Fun fact: Edison Lee launched in 2006 and earned the NCS Silver Reuben for Best Newspaper Comic Strip (2021).