This is an installment of 2022 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.
part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: Dearly Departed
2022 Debuts
These comics began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2022
RITTER’S RIVER
by Marc Lutz
June 1, 2022 –
weekly strip
Wrangell Sentinel
CRABGRASS
by Tauhid Bondia
June 27. 2022 –
Andrews McMeel Syndication
LAUREN IPSUM
by Charles Brubaker
November 15, 2022 –
weekly strip
Weakly County Press
>unknown title <
by Gus Petersen
December 29(?), 2022 –
weekly strip
Petersburg Pilot
2022 Departures
These comics ceased new run appearances in U. S. newspapers in 2022
MR. FITZ
by David Lee Finkle
March 28, 2000 – March 30, 2022
Daytona Beach News Journal/West Volusia Beacon
HEALTH CAPSULES
by Dr. Michael A. Petti & Jud Hurd; Bron Smith
February 20, 1961 – May 28, 2022
UFS/United Media/Universal Uclick/ Andrews McMeel Syndication
FLASHBACKS
by Patrick M. Reynolds
October 13, 1991 – September 25, 2022
Sunday (weekly) strip
Red Rose Studios (The Washington Post)
GIL
by Norm Feuti
May 11, 2014 – December 25, 2022
Sunday strip
The Providence Journal
[first appeared as the webcomic “Gill” on November 10, 2008]
[syndicated by KFS from January 2, 2012 – December 29, 2013]
FUNKY WINKERBEAN
by Tom Baiuk
with Chuck Ayers, Gerry Shamray, John Byrne, Rick Burchett
March 26, 1972 – December 31, 2022
Publishers Hall Syndicate/North America Syndicate (KFS)
Update:
Agnes
by Tony Cochran
March 8, 1999 (above) – December 31, 2022 (below)
[reruns distributed to newspapers January 1, 2023 on.]
You mean for the debuts of 2022 “These comics began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2022”, not 2021!
I’m going to have to start paying you to be my editor Darryl.
Thanks, corrected.
When will Part 2 with DETOURS and DEARLY DEPARTED be ready and up?
Never mind, I see part 2.