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Girls & Sports is a nationally syndicated comic strip, created by Justin Borus and Andrew Feinstein. Girls & Sports discusses the issues most important to young men, such as meeting and dating girls, watching and playing sports, "the bar scene," and so forth. Girls & Sports currently appears in over 175 college and mainstream newspapers nationwide, including the New York Daily News, the Denver Post and the US Military's Stars and Stripes newspaper.

1 Created for school papers
2 Marketed to non-college papers
3 Characters
4 Creators
5 Books
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Created for school papers

Friends since high school in Denver, Colorado, Borus and Feinstein created Girls & Sports in 1997 while studying abroad in Denmark. The original strips were based on their experiences in the Danish bars and nightclubs. When Borus and Feinstein returned to their respective schools - Williams College for Borus and Emory University for Feinstein - they published Girls & Sports in their own school papers and a few other college newspapers around the country. Their college popularity exploded, and Girls & Sports now appears regularly in more than 75 college publications. The national college publication, U. Magazine, featured Girls & Sports as one of the hottest comic strips in the country.

[edit] Marketed to non-college papers

Now in their late-twenties and facing an even broader spectrum of female inscrutability, Borus and Feinstein are firmly ensconced in the dating foibles of the real world. Girls & Sports has grown along with them, and its humor has become more sophisticated without losing its appeal to the college-age reader.

To satisfy the many pleas Borus and Feinstein received from graduating college students to get Girls & Sports into regular papers, the two began marketing Girls & Sports as a self-syndicated comic strip to publications outside college campuses in October 2004. Girls and Sports quickly became the most widely published independently-syndicated comic strip in the country. Today, Girls & Sports can be read in over 100 mainstream newspapers nationwide including, the New York Daily News, the Denver Post, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Tucson Citizen, the Allentown Morning Call, the Syracuse Post-Standard, the Pasadena Star-News, the Greensboro News & Record, the New Haven Register and many more. Girls & Sports has even become a hit in Stars and Stripes, the newspaper distributed to the United States Military worldwide, because of the strip’s strong appeal to young people.

Beyond print clients, several online newspapers carry Girls & Sports, including The Arizona Republic’s azcentral.com, The Denver Post's denverpost.com and TheConnecticut Post’s connpost.com.

In recognition of Borus and Feinstein's efforts in self-syndication, Girls & Sports has been selected over 7,000 other comic strip submissions by Creators Syndicate, who now markets and distributes the strip.

[edit] Characters

Girls & Sports follows the exploits of Bradley (the former college jock and boyfriend with a “wandering eye”), his best friend Marshall (the perpetually single guy looking for the right girl), his girlfriend JoAnn (independent-minded yet always seeking more attention from Bradley), Harris (the clever and mysterious sidekick) and a cast of ancillary characters including the Dream Woman, the Bouncer, the Personal Trainer and many more.

[edit] Creators

Justin Borus is the Denver-born co-creator and co-writer of Girls & Sports. Borus graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics. After creating Girls & Sports with Andrew, Borus further developed and wrote the comic strip while running a student business called the Williams Upperclass Facebook, playing varsity football, and driving two hours every Sunday to the nearest sports bar to watch his favorite player John Lynch, strong safety for the Denver Broncos. As Borus has repeatedly stated, he admires his drive and "great butt." He currently resides in Denver.

Andrew Feinstein, also born in Denver, is the artist, co-creator and co-writer of Girls & Sports. Prior to working on Girls & Sports full-time, Feinstein produced Looney Tunes cartoon shorts for Warner Bros. Feinstein also supervised the development and production of 10 new cartoon properties through Warner Bros. Cartoon Monsoon shorts program. Feinstein has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Emory University in Atlanta. While at Emory, Feinstein served as the editorial sports writer and sports cartoonist for The Emory Wheel and worked for Turner Sports during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Feinstein currently lives in Los Angeles.

[edit] Books

Opening Lines, Pinky Probes and L-Bombs: The Girls & Sports Dating and Relationship Playbook (ISBN 1-59580-015-8) - published [October 28, 2006], is a humorous, in-depth look at the events and circumstances that confront singles in their everyday lives, including dating, "the bar scene," sports, working out, parties, and vacations. A wealth of advice is offered via charts, graphs, and pithy text boxes containing bylaws, truisms, and strategies.