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“The Elderberries” to Undergo Creative Changes

Kansas City, MO  (05/07/2007)  “The Elderberries” will undergo creative changes beginning today. Joe Troise has retired as one-half of the creative team for the popular comic strip. Co-creator and cartoonist Phil Frank will take on more of the creative management of the strip, while sharing writing and art responsibilities with Corey Pandolph, a cartoonist from Portland, Maine. These creative changes will mean no disruption of the comic strip, which will continue on its normal seven-day schedule.

Pandolph is a comedy writer/cartoonist who creates the Web comic, "Barkeater Lake ," which can be found at www.gocomics.com. He currently creates "Rob the Evil Backstabbing Robot" comic for MAD Magazine’s Strip Club and he writes a weekly column for the humor Web site, Drink at Work.

“The Elderberries,” syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate since December 2004, is about a quintet of senior citizens living together in a retirement community. The multi-dimensional friends spice up their day-to-day lives with covert field trips, practical jokes and dueling wordplay. The strip is printed in newspapers around the country, including the Chicago Sun Times, The Denver Post, The Portland Oregonian, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post Intelligencer, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Frank, who founded “The Elderberries” along with Troise, began his work as a cartoonist at his school newspaper at Michigan State University. He produced a daily comic panel for the newspaper for four years. This job led to a job with Hallmark Cards where he was a writer and artist. In 1970, he began creating “Travels With Farley,” which has been a huge hit with San Francisco Bay residents for some 20 years.

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Creator(s): Phil Frank

Contact(s): Kathie Kerr

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