Farley (comic Strip)
Farley was an American comic strip written and drawn by Phil Frank, which appeared daily (except Saturday) in the San Francisco Chronicle. The strip originally began in 1975 as Travels With Farley, a nationally syndicated strip, but Phil missed the "timeliness and joy of doing local politics" and, dissatisfied with the four-to-six week lead time required of syndication, switched to working exclusively for the Chronicle, which enabled him to quickly mine local events—usually overnight—for his satire. Phil Frank died on September 12, 2007, shortly after announcing, on September 9, that he was retiring due to illness. Reprints of the strip had been running for some months before this, as he had been too ill to work.