New Cartoon: RUDY PARK

United Feature Syndicate launched the comic Rudy Park on September 3, 2001. Rudy Park is written by journalist Theron Heir and drawn by Darrin Bell. You can find the current day's installment, plus a thirty day archive, at http://www.comics.com/comics/rudypark/

United provides a great overview of the comic: Modern life has its complications. Entire romances take place online (including the naughty parts); twelve-year-olds are preoccupied with balancing their portfolios; the desire to own the world's largest SUV is almost as urgent as the desire to own the world's smallest cellular phone. In short, this culture needs to take a good, hard laugh at itself. Rudy Park, a comic strip by Darrin Bell and Theron Heir, brings a unique point of view to the comics pages and the Web (at www.comics.com). Rudy Park appears in 60 newspapers worldwide, including the Chicago Sun-Times, Detroit Free Press, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Seattle Times and Denver Rocky Mountain News.

Rudy Park lampoons consumerism, technology and culture. The strip is not afraid to ask the tough questions, like whether it really, absolutely, positively has to be there overnight. And, if technology's so great, how come we still can't program the VCR?

This hectic, modern world is seen through the eyes of the regulars and employees who hang out at the House of Java Cybercafe, including its manager, Rudy Park. Rudy believes firmly in all things Internet, the healing powers of consumption, and the conviction that inner peace can be found at the mall.

His boss, Armstrong Maynard, is a 21-year-old entrepreneur years ahead of his time. Rudy's arch-nemesis, the aged Mrs. Sadie Cohen, is a Luddite and contrarian with a checkered past, who has learned through experience that there is more to life than being efficient and wealthy. And there is Randy "The Rock" Taylor, a secretive former football star and ladies man, with hidden career dreams he's not yet ready to reveal to the world.

First published weekly in the San Francisco Chronicle and on the Internet at www.nytimes.com, Rudy Park helps lighten the load when the NASDAQ dives, technical support forgets to answer the phone, or President Bush thinks an anti-trust suit is something to wear when he meets with Democrats.

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