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Girls & Sports was an American comic strip written and illustrated by Justin Borus and Andrew Feinstein. It was initially created in 1997 and was published in various college newspapers until 2004 when Borus and Feinstein began self-syndicating the strip. It was distributed by Creators Syndicate, until discontinued in 2011.
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[edit] History
Justin Borus and Andrew Feinstein created Girls & Sports in 1997 while studying abroad in Denmark. The strips were based on their own dating escapades. When they returned to America, they began publishing their comic Girls & Sports in their college newspapers. After college, Borus and Feinstein began marketing the comic to mainstream newspapers becoming the most widely syndicated independent comic strip in the country. The strip is now distributed by Creators Syndicate.[1] From January 2010 to March 2011, this strip appeared on ESPN's Page 2.[2] In May 2011, the strip bruntly was discontinued with brief mentioning by one of websites that featured the comic.[3] The last daily strip appeared April 30, 2011 with the last Sunday strip appearing May 8.
[edit] Characters
Girls & Sports mainly centers on the dating lives of two men: Bradley and Marshall. Bradley is dating Joayn but is not against going to the bar and hitting on other women although he remains loyal to Joann (as far as she knows). Marshall is the perpetual single guy who listens to Bradley's advice even when it's against his better judgment. Joann thinks Marshall is a bad influence on Bradley.
[edit] Book
Opening Lines, Pinky Probes and L-Bombs: The Girls & Sports Dating and Relationship Playbook (ISBN 1-59580-015-8) - published [October 28, 2006], is not a normal comic anthology but rather a look at the events and circumstances that confront singles in their everyday lives, including dating, "the bar scene," sports, working out, parties, and vacations in the style of the Girls & Sports strips. It offers advice via charts, graphs, and text boxes containing bylaws, truisms, and strategies.
[edit] Television Animation
Throughout the summer of 2008, Girls & Sports appeared as a series of animated short cartoons on Fox Sports Net's flagship late night talk show The Best Damn Sports Show Period.
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[edit] External links
- Girls & Sports, official site
- Girls & Sports at Creators Syndicate
- National Cartoonists Society: Justin Borus
- National Cartoonists Society: Andrew Feinstein
- ESPN Cold Pizza Feature - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twLTDcnWpj0
- G4 Attack of the Show Feature - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzcO-ma0PIc&feature=channel_page
- Denver Business Journal - http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2007/07/30/story3.html
- Athens News - http://www.athensnews.com/girlsandsports.php
- Daily Cartoonist - http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2006/04/19/girls-and-sports-will-appear-on-espn2
- Editor & Publisher - http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001701211
- Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel - http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/living/11884495.htm
- Lawrence Journal-World - http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/jun/26/comic_change/
- Journal Gazette - http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2007/01/11/features/features001.txt
- Emory University Goizeuta Magazine - http://www.goizuetamag.emory.edu/spring2001/pages/network3.html
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