''Maintaining'' is a 2007-2009 comic strip by cartoonist
Nate Creekmore
Nate Creekmore (born October 14, 1982, in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American cartoonist. Nate is a two-time winner of the Scripps College Cartoonist of the Year and an Associated Press award for achievement in college cartooning for Nate's strip '' ...
.
Creekmore is a two-time winner of the
Scripps College
Scripps College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Claremont, California. It was founded as a member of the Claremont Colleges in 1 ...
Cartoonist of the Year and an
Associated Press
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award for achievement in college cartooning. Creekmore's strip first appeared in the newspaper at
Lipscomb University
Lipscomb University is a private university in Nashville, Tennessee. It is affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The campus is located in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, between Belmont Boulevard to the west and Granny White Pike on ...
in
Nashville
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. ''Maintaining'' was later picked up for syndication through
Universal Press Syndicate
Universal Press Syndicate (UPS), a subsidiary of Andrews McMeel Universal, was an independent press syndicate. It distributed lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and other content. Popular columns include Dear Abby, Ann Coulter, Roger Eb ...
. It was launched on May 7, 2007, and canceled in August 2009 for poor sales. The last daily strip was August 1, 2009.
References
External links
Nate Creekmore websiteMaintainingon
GoComics
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American comic strips
Gag-a-day comics
2007 comics debuts
2009 comics endings
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