A Couple of Guys

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Eric (left) and Joey (right)

A Couple of Guys was a comic strip about the lives of a gay male couple, their friends and family in New York City. [1] The strip was first published in September 1996 and was written and drawn by Dave Brousseau. The strip ended in February 2018 because of high production costs and Brousseu's wishes. [2] [3]

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History

The strip was first published in the now-defunct Weekly News, a gay newspaper in Miami, Florida, in September 1996. It was syndicated in June 1996 and was published in newspapers across the United States. and on several websites.

Brousseau said that two of the characters, Eric's sister and brother-in-law, first appeared in a comic strip he drew in college. Mary Ann Parker and Marty Dinkleman were supporting characters in Guy Average, Average Guy, which also appeared in the Xavier University Newswire. However, the later Marty was somewhat different from the previous incarnation in that the college version was never openly homophobic, had curly hair, and was not a native New Yorker.

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Main characters

Supporting characters

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References

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  2. "A Couple of Guys". www.facebook.com. Retrieved Oct 15, 2019.
  3. "A Couple of Guys". www.facebook.com. Retrieved Oct 15, 2019.