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| Farley | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Phil Frank |
| Website | www |
| Current status/schedule | Concluded |
| Launch date | 1975 |
| End date | 2007 |
| Alternate name(s) | Travels With Farley |
| Syndicate(s) | Chronicle Features (1975–1985) |
| Publisher(s) | San Francisco Chronicle |
| Genre(s) | Humor, Teens, Adults |
Farley was an American comic strip written and drawn by Phil Frank, which appeared daily (except Saturday) in the San Francisco Chronicle .
The strip began in 1975 as Travels With Farley, a play on John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley . [1] Farley began as a nationally syndicated strip with Chronicle Features, [2] but Frank missed the "timeliness and joy of doing local politics" and, dissatisfied with the four-to-six week lead time required of syndication, in 1985 switched to working exclusively for the Chronicle, which enabled him to quickly mine local events—usually overnight—for his satire.
Phil Frank died on September 12, 2007, [3] shortly after announcing, on September 9, that he was retiring due to illness. [4] Reprints of the strip had been running for some months before this, as he had been too ill to work. [3]
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The strip's cast grew so much that Farley, the title character, appeared infrequently. The usual cast was:
A number of the strips have been collected and published as books.
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