Six Chix
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Six Chix is a collaborative comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 distributed by King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers worldwide...

 since it debuted in January 2000.

The series is drawn by six female cartoonists who rotate the drawing duties through the week based on a fixed schedule:
  • Monday - Isabella Bannerman
  • Tuesday - Margaret Shulock
    Margaret Shulock
    Margaret Shulock is an American cartoonist who works as a writer-artist on several features.Born in Canastota, New York, she lived in Franklinville, New York and Buffalo, New York. She currently resides in Friendship, New York. She began sending weekly, hand-drawn postcards to her parents, often in...

  • Wednesday - Rina Piccolo
    Rina Piccolo
    Rina Piccolo is a Canadian cartoonist, best known for her comic strip Tina's Groove, distributed by King Features Syndicate since 2002. She has been a professional cartoonist for more than two decades and recently gained recognition as an author of short stories.Born and raised in Toronto, Piccolo...

  • Thursday - Anne Gibbons
    Anne Gibbons
    Anne Gibbons is an American cartoonist and greeting card illustrator.Her cartoons have been published in Ladies' Home Journal, Glamour, Cosmopolitan and Redbook.She received the National Cartoonists Society Greeting Card Award for 1999....

     (starting July 2007) ; Carla Ventresca
    Carla Ventresca
    Carla Ventresca is co-creator with husband Henry Beckett of the internationally syndicated comic strip On A Claire Day.Starting in October 2007, she became one of the new cartoonists for Parade Magazine. Carla won the 2007 National Cartoonists Society's "Reuben" award for Best Greeting Cards...

     (October 2005 through July 2007); Ann Telnaes
    Ann Telnaes
    Ann Carolyn Telnaes is a editorial cartoonist. Unlike many editorial cartoonists, Telnaes does not draw for any one set newspaper, and her cartoons are instead syndicated across the United States. In 2001, she became the second woman cartoonist to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning...

     (through September 2005)
  • Friday - Benita Epstein (starting May 2009); Kathryn LeMieux (Through April 2009)
  • Saturday - Stephanie Piro
  • Sunday - Rotates


The Sunday comic
Sunday strip
A Sunday strip is a newspaper comic strip format, where comic strips are printed in the Sunday newspaper, usually in a special section called the Sunday comics, and virtually always in color. Some readers called these sections the Sunday funnies...

is drawn by the team members on a rotating basis. The look and feel of the strip varies greatly among the six artists with no particular attempt made to introduce cohesiveness, although the strip usually focuses on relationships, child rearing and other issues of interest to women.

Six Chix is syndicated to more than 120 newspapers, including the Arizona Republic, Detroit News, Houston Chronicle, San Diego Union-Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

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