Brevity (comic strip)

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Brevity
Author(s)Guy Endore-Kaiser & Rodd Perry
Dan Thompson
Websitewww.gocomics.com/brevity
Current status/scheduleCurrent Gag-a-day panel
Launch dateJanuary 3, 2005; 16 years ago (January 3, 2005)
Syndicate(s)United Feature Syndicate / Andrews McMeel Syndication
Publisher(s)Andrews McMeel Publishing
Genre(s)humor

Brevity is a single-panel newspaper comic strip created by Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry, and currently drawn by Dan Thompson.

Publication history[]

Brevity originally began on (a site which helps beginning comic strips make their work public over the web).[1] Endore-Kaiser cited Gary Larson's The Far Side as an inspiration. The strip was originally intended to be called Cow Tools, in homage to a notorious Far Side cartoon, but the authors were forced to change it after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from lawyers representing Larson.[2] The strip debuted with United Feature Syndicate in 55 newspapers on January 3, 2005. Today, Brevity is published in over 130 newspapers in the USA and Canada.[citation needed] There are currently four published collections and one treasury.

In the past few years GoComics.com has allowed visitors to submit comments on each strip.

Books[]

There are four collections and one treasury published by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Title Release Date ISBN
Brevity September 1, 2006 ISBN 978-0-7407-6042-6
Brevity 2 August 1, 2007 ISBN 978-0-7407-6840-8
Brevity Remix: A Brevity Treasury June 1, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7407-7228-3
Brevity 3 October 21, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7407-7360-0
Brevity 4 April 21, 2009 ISBN 978-0-7407-7361-7

References[]

  1. ^ Williams, Greg (28 September 2003). "High Hopes". Tampa Tribune.
  2. ^ Wineke, William R. (3 January 2005). "Cartoon with shades of 'Far Side' debuts today, also 'Mutts' is added to State Journal pages by popular demand". Wisconsin State Journal. In fact, Endore-Kaiser and Perry, 34, originally wanted to call their cartoon "Cow Tools," after a famous Larson cartoon, but that proved too much for Larson's lawyers, who sent them a cease-and-desist letter.

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