November 11th, 2024, (LOS ANGELES, CA) — There have been many firsts on the Zoop crowdfunding platform lately. And today is no different. For the first time ever, the entire syndicated comic strip, Mullets by Steve McGarry and Rick Stromoski is being collected all in one glorious graphic novel package. The book will also feature the title’s only new content in years from McGarry’s son, Luke McGarry who is contributing a brand new 12 page story to the book.
They say write about what you know – so Steve McGarry and Rick Stromoski created a comic strip about two idiots.
Mullets by Steve McGarry and Rick Stromoski ran from November 24, 2003 to January 15, 2005.
Back in 2003, Steve McGarry and Rick Stromoski launched Mullets, a nationally syndicated comic strip by two seasoned creators. Focusing on Kevin and Scab, two mulleted, sweet dumbos who work at a hardware store, the strip was fun, funny, and due to the seasoned creators had a fleshed-out cast of supporting characters. And then 60 weeks later, it was done.
…Or was it? Over 20 years later, Mullets is back in crowdfunding form on Zoop, and billed as the “funniest comic strip you never read.” Collecting all the strips, and including a “legacy-destroying” sequel by Luke McGarry, the elder McGarry’s son, you can finally check out Mullets for yourself.
Comic Book Club interviews Steve about the collection:
It’s being billed as “the funniest comic strip you never read,” but do you ever get folks mentioning it to you?
That’s the thing. When we learned that our launch was being handicapped, we devised Plan B. A friend of ours had a small syndicate that specialized in newspaper editorial cartoons, so we asked him to preview Mullets. He did a mail out to his readers, with a week or two’s preview samples, and asked readers if they like it to write in to us, tell us their local paper and we would do the rest.
We got 5,000 emails from readers raving about the strip. We gave them to the syndicate but it still barely made a dent. By the time we launched, we had a couple of dozen clients. We were committed by now, so figured we might as well go for it. But as I say, once the syndicate had moved on to the next priority, it was an uphill battle. We had both been pros long enough to know that we were flogging a dead horse so we pulled the plug after 60 weeks.
And LRM Online presents a twenty-three minute YouTube interview with Steve and Luke.
The Mullets Zoop page is here.
Collected for the first time, here are all 60 weeks of full-color dailies and Sundays of the short-lived, much-missed, syndicated newspaper strip “Mullets,” along with a special 12-page bonus sequel by Luke McGarry.
Quite simply, it’s the funniest comic strip you never read.