# Is the Cartoonist Karen Ellis still alive?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 13, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-cartoonist-karen-ellis-still-alive/740369 "2015-12-13T23:38:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-cartoonist-karen-ellis-still-alive/740369/1 "2015-12-13T23:38:50Z")

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Karen Ellis, the prominent web cartoonist/autobiographer, & author of the once-popular strip _Planet Karen_ suddenly stopped published her strip, after announcing that she was going to an operation the next day.

[Last strip](http://planetkaren.wwwcomics.net/comic/700/)  
Is Ms Ellis still alive?  
The World would be a little less cheerful, if she has left us.  
Does anybody know?

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-cartoonist-karen-ellis-still-alive/740369/2 "2015-12-14T00:35:08Z")

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Her last strip was in 2011. Her last Twitter posting was this year, in April. I don’t think she died as a result of her 2011 medical procedure, which (according to her FB page) was eyesight-related.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-cartoonist-karen-ellis-still-alive/740369/3 "2015-12-14T00:49:37Z")

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Thank you.  
Good news.

🙂

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-cartoonist-karen-ellis-still-alive/740369/4 "2015-12-15T06:50:13Z")

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I sent her a note letting her know about this thread; she emailed me today:

> [@Karen Ellis](#):
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> Hi Bo,
> 
> No, I’m not dead, and I haven’t been kidnapped by aliens _again_. I just haven’t had anything interesting to say for a while. It’s good to know someone cares, though.
> 
> Karen

So there ya go.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-cartoonist-karen-ellis-still-alive/740369/5 "2015-12-15T23:32:56Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> I sent her a note letting her know about this thread; she emailed me today:  
> So there ya go.

:):)🙂