Kelly & Duke

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Kelly & Duke was a daily and Sunday comic strip drawn and written by Jack Moore and syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. It began in 1972, then known as Kelly, but changed to Kelly & Duke title in 1974.

The strip centers around a boy named Kelly, whose pet and best friend is Duke, an anthromorphic dog with a Southern accent. The strip's cast was made up with Roscoe, a beatnik cat.

While the strip was not as popular as Universal's earlier comic Doonesbury, it had enough fanbase to place the comic in a "cult" status.

There were no book collections of Kelly and Duke, although a children's book based on the strip, What is God's Area Code?, was published in 1974 as part of the Cartoon Stories for the New Children

The strip ended its run in 1980.