''The Other Coast'' is a Canadian

comic strip A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st ...

, drawn by

Adrian Raeside Adrian Raeside (born 1957 in Dunedin, New Zealand) is an author, comic strip creator and founder of an animation company. Early years He began drawing cartoons on washroom walls as a kid. After being expelled from his first (and last) art cla ...

. It has been syndicated by the

Creator's Syndicate Creators Syndicate (also known as Creators) is an American independent distributor of comic strips and syndicated columns to daily newspapers, websites, and other digital outlets. When founded in 1987, Creators Syndicate became one of the few suc ...

since 2001. It is syndicated to more than 150

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s worldwide. The strip blends

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political Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies ...

, and

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issues with

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Collections

* ''The Other Coast: Road Rage in Beverly Hills'' (2004); * ''This Is Your First Rock Garden, Isn't It?: An Other Coast Collection'' (2005);

External links

''The Other Coast'' at Creators.com
Canadian comic strips 2001 comics debuts Satirical comics Comics about politics Gag-a-day comics The second sentence should read: It has been syndicated by Creators Syndicate since 2001. {{comic-strip-stub