The College Comics
Duke University Chronicle, ’97 to ’99
As it ran in the Duke student newspaper, Johnny navigates university life with two roommates, a talking computer, and a bat and a squirrel with opinions.
The comic strip ran daily in The Chronicle from January 1997 to August 1999: 378 comics over five semesters and three summers, after seven comics sent in as a submission in November 1996.
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Johnny rooms with a comp sci major and a philosopher, meets Nick the squirrel and Mo the Chapel bat, and briefly stops existing.
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STU the computer gets a nose, Fratman fights new alcohol rules, Mo pitches Nan Keohane an ad, and the guys road-trip to Hell.
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Fratman falls for Sorority Girl, Johnny bluffs his way to art stardom, and Nick and Mo get jailed over Michael Jordan's jersey.
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Fratman expands rush to Mars, Johnny goes to war over an orgo permission number, and the K-ville tenters go underground.
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Jay moves in, Johnny is briefly CEO of a dot-com that does nothing, Disney buys Johnny the Mediocre Human, and the comic ends.
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