Between Friends (comic)

Infobox Comic strip
title=Between Friends


caption= Between Friends
creator=Sandra Bell-Lundy
current=
status=running
syndicate=King Features Syndicate
comictype=print
genre=Humor, Politics, Family
first=February, 1994
last=

Between Friends is an internationally syndicated comic strip written by Canadian Sandra Bell-Lundy. The comic focuses on three middle-aged professional women and the problems that they face in their lives. Initially Maeve, Susan, and Kimberly were all childless, but Susan and Kimberly are now mothers.

Characters

All the minor characters are connected to Kim, Maeve, or Susan.

Kimberly previously wrote a column on women's issues from home. She is currently a homemaker and struggling to find a new source of intellectual fulfillment.
*Derek, high school English teacher, was a single father before his new marriage to Kim.
*Danny has adjusted from being Derek's son to Derek and Kim's son. He is always in the latest kids' fads such as Pokémon, Crash Bandicoot, and Yu-Gi-Oh!.

Maeve is a spicy divorcee who always has a snappy comeback. She's the one that a person always remembers at parties. She's a great Sales Director at the office, less great with her personal life.
*Helen is Maeve's coworker, sounding board and voice of experience at the office. She's married with two kids in their pre-teens.
*Simon is Maeve's ex-husband. He periodically drops in and spreads chaos.

Susan like Maeve, works in a professional office. Previously she and her husband Harvey were DINKs. After struggling with infertility treatments, they adopted a daughter, Emma.
*Harvey is a laid-back funeral director and Susan's supportive husband.
*Emma is Susan and Harvey's adopted daughter.
*Tina is Susan's office buddy and frazzled mom with two kids in diapers.

tyle

The strip is drawn in detail and appears in colour. The characters are shown living in their homes, or offices, but they are shown at the mall or the coffee shop from time to time. Unlike usual comics where the characters are frozen in time, here the characters are shown being aging. Emma and Danny who were show as little tots are now shown to be grown children.

Sometimes the strip is serialised with the story running for a week or more on some occasions. Susan's and Harvey's fertility treatment series and subsequently their adoption series ran with breaks from 1997 to 1998. The fertility treatment series started 16 December 1996 until 11 February 1998 in a total of 35 daily strips. The adoptions series overlapped the fertility series and started on 16 December 1996 and ran till 16 May 1998 in a total of 32 daily strips [cite web
url = http://www.betweenfriendscartoons.com/fertility.htm
title = The Fertility & Adoption Storyline Archive
accessdate = 2007-11-24
publisher = Between Friends cartoons.com] .

The daily strip usually runs to four panels. The Sunday strip is in a two tiered format with a large logo panel appearing on the left of the strip.

Books

# "Hello, Daughter", Plan Nine Publishing
# "Coffee, Tea, and Reality: A Between Friends Collection", Andrews McMeel Publishing, ISBN 0-7407-4134-9

References

ee also

Women in Comics

External links

* [http://www.betweenfriendscartoons.com/ Official website]