David Stroup rockets into the 21st century: 'Yossarian' finally online!



My friend, former co-worker, and "Jaxxon's 11" collaborator David Stroup has written and drawn his own comic strip, "Yossarian," for over two decades.

It appeared in his high-school and college newspapers. Then, over a decade later, he resurrected it for the Clackamas Review -- the community paper we worked at together -- where it ran weekly for about five years. (It's probably the only thing that kept him sane between bouts of writing about the same quilting bee year after year.)


At this point, David's drawn hundreds of these strips -- developing rich characters and a totally unique line in the process. He draws the funniest Bigfoot I've ever seen. And he works in weird details from Oregon history and his own life where you'd least expect them. (Both of us have an unhealthy fascination with John McLoughlin, for example, and I believe the newspaper-editor character "Russ" is modeled ever-so-slightly on yours truly.)

Anyway. I'm delighted to report that David is finally putting "Yossarian" online at Webcomics Nation.

He's thowing up a new (well, new to you) "Yos" five days a week. He launched the online version of the strip from somewhere midway through his backlog -- so I'm pretty sure he can update the strip five days a week for a couple of years without having to draw a single new installment. (Though I'm told he'll continue the comic once he catches up.) And he's putting up other, older "Yos" installments as stand-alone mini-stories to compliment the main strip.


By all means check it out. It's a great way to pass the time until David and I finally get around to finishing "Jaxxon's 11."

Yossarian by David Stroup

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Posted: Tue - June 6, 2006 at 03:54 PM        

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