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Missed It: Drew Litton’s New Slippery Slopes Comic Strip

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D. D. Degg Published: January 9, 2026 Updated: January 9, 2026 1 minute 2 comments

Drew Litton has created Slippery Slopes, a new comic strip exclusive to the Vail Daily.

The Colorado sports cartoonist and editorial cartoonist has created a comic strip that is neither sports- nor political-centric, rather it is a loving and humorous look at Colorado’s Rocky Mountain area.

The comic strip first appeared at the end of December 2025.

Drew tells of the comic’s development at his Beyond the Drawing Board Substack:

In early October I was contacted by the Vail Daily about the possibility of drawing for their paper. We talked about a few options for cartoons on a local level. I was a huge fan of a cartoonist named Phil Frank who drew a local comic strip for the San Francisco Chronicle called Farley. I loved his work and the way he used his cartoons as a way to utilize the community and the city around him to attract new readers. The more options with the folks at the Daily the more we became excited for a similar concept. Ed Stein had done it well in the Rocky Mountain News as well, with his successful Denver Square comic strip. I knew this was the way to go…

Drew continues:

I needed something different to stretch myself. I grew up idolizing the comic strips POGO, Peanuts, Krazy Kat, Tumbleweeds, Shoe, BC and Conchy. I also grew up in the era of Saturday Morning Cartoons with Underdog, Super Chicken, Top Cat, Secret Squirrel, Atom Ant, Bullwinkle, The Pink Panther and Quickdraw Mcgraw. All of those shows used anthropomorphic characters to drive the narrative. I wanted to do the same thing someday. Trying to sell a talking animal strip isn’t easy these days. Actually trying to sell any comic strip is almost impossible now with newspapers disappearing faster than Brontosaurs during the Ice Age…

The comic strip appears thrice weekly (Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays) at The Vail Daily which kindly provides an e-edition available to us out-of-towners.

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