Barney & Clyde is a comic strip about an unlikely friendship between a homeless man and a tycoon. It’s about our modern, polarized economy of haves and have-nots. It re-examines traditional measures of success, failure, and the nature of happiness.

Barney -- J. Barnard Pillsbury -- is the billionaire founder and CEO of Pillsbury Pharmaceuticals. Barney thinks he has it all – power, wealth, a pampered existence with a statuesque trophy wife – until he meets Clyde Finster, an intelligent, entertaining (and possibly crazy) street person.

Clyde’s satisfaction with his circumstance surprises and confounds Barney, whose success in life has been hard-fought and won. For Clyde, Barney’s acceptance is validation of a life lived without compromise.

Gene Weingarten is a college dropout and the nationally syndicated humor columnist for The Washington Post. He has written four books: "The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death" (1998); "I'm With Stupid" (with Gina Barreca, 2004); "Old Dogs" (with Michael Williamson, 2008) and "The Fiddler in the Subway" (2010), which is an anthology of his newspaper feature stories. The last title refers to the stunt he engineered in which violinist Joshua Bell performed incognito outside a Metro stop in Washington, D.C. It won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. He repeated the feat (the award, not the stunt) in 2010.

Dan Weingarten is a former college dropout and a current college student majoring in information technology. He has worked as a construction guy, a hardware store guy, and a car jockey at a Honda dealership. At a very young age, he was taught that humor is valued above all other virtues; this accounts for both his wit and his complete lack of social graces.

Cartoonist David Clark is originally from Chicago, though he spent his formative years in the Washington suburbs and now lives in the sticks. He has been a freelance illustrator for newspapers, magazines and books for more than 20 years. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Clark has earned several illustration awards including the National Cartoonists Society’s Newspaper Illustration Reuben Award in 1996. Clark now holes up in the hills of Virginia with his wife, three kids and assorted critters.