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David Wiley Miller who was born on April 15, 1951 in Burbank, California and grew up in Hollywood, is an American cartoonist whose work is characterized by wry wit and trenchant social satire. He went to high school in Virginia, where he started drawing cartoons for the school's newspaper. He studied at Virginia Commonwealth University and got a job as editorial cartoonist at a North Carolina newspaper in 1976. Two years later he moved to California again, where he got a comparable job at The Press Democrat, a Santa Rosa newspaper.

By sending drawings Miller doodled on cocktail napkins (which he called "Bartoons") to Playboy, Wiley made his breakthrough. In 1982, he created his first syndicated comic strip, 'Fenton', which ran for three years, after which Wiley returned to editorial cartooning. In 1991, the newspaper comic strip 'Non Sequitur' was born. He used the single-panel format for creating a sequential comic, which was so unique that the strip was soon picked up by 700 newspapers all over the country and gained great popularity.

Wiley has helped innovate as well as publishing on Go Comics, distributed via email. newspaper comics, not only by experimenting with the comic format, which allowed editors more space to use comics, but also by helping newspapers find a new way of coloring, which made the Sunday pages look much more vivid and allows one cartoon to be used in two different ways for both panel dimensions and strip dimensions.

In February 2019 many newspapers dropped Non Sequitur after the Sunday comic dated February 10, 2019 included a hidden profane message aimed at President Donald Trump. As of February 14, at least 40 newspapers said they were dropping Non Sequitur, including The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. Miller said the Trump comment was an oversight, something he had forgotten about and had intended to remove. However, The Hill noted that he had teased the strip in a now-deleted tweet pointing out an "Easter egg" in the image.

Wiley was named Best Editorial Cartoonist by the  California Newspaper Publishers Association in 1988 and won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for editorial cartooning in 1991. The National Cartoonists Society honored Non Sequitur with four awards in the first six years of publication, including their Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1995, 1996 and 1998, and it was nominated for the same award in 1999 and 2002 and won their Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 1992.

Non Sequitur is the only comic strip to win its division during the first year of publication, and it is the only comic feature to win in two divisions, Best Comic Strip for 1992 and Best Newspaper Panel Cartoon for 1995, 1996 and 1998.

Wiley continues to publish Non Sequitur. Here is a link to his page on “GoComics.com” https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur