2022: Debuts, Departures and the Dearly Departed – Part One: Debuts and Departures

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

©Tauhid Bondia

CRABGRASS
by Tauhid Bondia
June 27. 2022 –
Andrews McMeel Syndication

LAUREN IPSUM
by Charles Brubaker
November 15, 2022 –
weekly strip
Weakly County Press

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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)

© Batom, Inc.

Update:

Agnes

by Tony Cochran

March 8, 1999 (above) – December 31, 2022 (below)

Creators Syndicate

[reruns distributed to newspapers January 1, 2023 on.]

4 thoughts on “2022: Debuts, Departures and the Dearly Departed – Part One: Debuts and Departures

  1. You mean for the debuts of 2022 “These comics began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2022”, not 2021!

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