Girls & Sports
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Girls & Sports is a daily comic strip that discusses the issues important to its two male main characters, such as meeting and dating girls, watching and playing sports, "the bar scene," and so forth. Girls & Sports has appeared in over 300 college and mainstream newspapers nationwide, including the New York Daily News, the Los Angeles Daily News, the Denver Post and the US Military's Stars and Stripes newspaper.
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[edit] Created for school papers
Friends since high school in Denver, Colorado, Justin Borus and Andrew Feinstein created Girls & Sports in 1997 while studying abroad in Denmark. The original strips were based on their experiences in the Danish bars and nightclubs. When Borus and Feinstein returned to their respective schools - Williams College for Borus and Emory University for Feinstein - they published Girls & Sports in their own school papers and a few other college newspapers around the country. Girls & Sports now appears regularly in more than 75 college publications. The national college publication, U. Magazine, featured Girls & Sports as one of the hottest comic strips in the country.
[edit] Marketed to non-college papers
Borus and Feinstein began marketing Girls & Sports as a self-syndicated comic strip to publications outside college campuses in October 2004. By 2005, Girls & Sports became the most widely published independently-syndicated comic strip in the country when newspapers including the New York Daily News, the Denver Post, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the US Military's Stars and Stripes newspaper and the METRO in both Boston and Philadelphia published the comic strip.
In recognition of Borus and Feinstein's efforts in self-syndication, in 2006 Girls & Sports was selected over 7,000 other comic strip submissions by Creators Syndicate, who now markets and distributes the strip.
[edit] Characters
Girls & Sports follows the exploits of Bradley (the former college jock and boyfriend with a “wandering eye”), his best friend Marshall (the perpetually single guy looking for the right girl), Bradley's girlfriend JoAnn (independent-minded yet always seeking more attention from Bradley), Harris (the clever and mysterious sidekick) and a cast of ancillary characters including the Dream Woman, the Bouncer, the Personal Trainer and many more.
[edit] Creators
Justin Borus is the Denver-born co-creator and co-writer of Girls & Sports. Borus graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics. After creating Girls & Sports with Andrew, Borus further developed and wrote the comic strip while running a student business called the Williams Upperclass Facebook, playing varsity football, and driving two hours every Sunday to the nearest sports bar to watch his favorite player John Elway, Former Quarterback of the Denver Broncos. He currently resides in Denver.
Andrew Feinstein, also born in Denver, is the artist, co-creator and co-writer of Girls & Sports. Prior to working on Girls & Sports full-time, Feinstein produced Looney Tunes cartoon shorts for Warner Bros.. Feinstein also supervised the development and production of 10 new cartoon properties through Warner Bros.. Cartoon Monsoon shorts program. Feinstein has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Emory University in Atlanta. While at Emory, Feinstein served as the editorial sports writer and sports cartoonist for The Emory Wheel and worked for Turner Sports during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Feinstein currently splits his time between Los Angeles and Denver.
[edit] Books
Opening Lines, Pinky Probes and L-Bombs: The Girls & Sports Dating and Relationship Playbook (ISBN 1-59580-015-8) - published [October 28, 2006], is a humorous, in-depth look at the events and circumstances that confront singles in their everyday lives, including dating, "the bar scene," sports, working out, parties, and vacations. A wealth of advice is offered via charts, graphs, and pithy 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.
[edit] References
- 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
[edit] External links
- Girls & Sports, official site
- National Cartoonists Society: Justin Borus
- National Cartoonists Society: Andrew Feinstein
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