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Free Range Daily Syndicated Comic Strip


If you feel like jumping the fence and wandering the world of Free Range, expect the unexpected. You will meet crash test dummies in psychotherapy, cowboys in flip flops, tech savvy cavemen, Moses with a GPS...stuff you don't usually see every day. You can find Free Range written and drawn by Bill Whitehead in newspapers in print, on GoComics and on Creators websites.

Bill has a history of cartooning experience dating back to childhood, when he would drop his sports equipment on the floor beside his wooden desk, pull out his #2 pencil and draw cartoons about his day. Family and friends lived in fear of finding their foibles exposed on the pages of his self published cartoon collections; a feature of life that has continued to bedevil his neighbors, friends, wife, and family of three children to the current day. Bill drew cartoons for his college newspaper, and was the winner of the national cartoonist competition by the Saturday Evening Post in 1972. For twenty-two years he served as the weekly editorial cartoonist for the Kansas City Business Journal, for which he won Best Editorial Cartoonist of the year; drew cartoons for the Boston Phoenix and Boston After Dark in the 1970's; and was employed as a full-time humor card writer\artist for Hallmark Cards, Inc. for 24 years (1986-2009). For many years Bill's editorial cartoons were published in the "Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year" by Pelican Publishing

Today, in addition to his daily work as a cartoonist, he is also an accomplished blues musician and song writer, singing and playing on the Chicago Blues Scene with Chicago Greats such as Linsey Alexander, Charlie Love , James Wheeler  and others. Bill Whitehead won the competitive Windy City Blues Society "Best Duo" designation for 2013 with Paul Streff, bassist. The Whitehead/Streff duo represented Chicago in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN in March 2013.

"Free Range" is a daily cartoon panel written and illustrated by cartoonist Bill Whitehead and the strip is syndicated by Creators Syndicate.

The daily Free Range feature is offered in black and white line drawings by Creators Monday-Saturday, and is offered in full color on Sundays. Free Range Daily and Sunday Cartoons (as well as other products) are offered in full color through ancillary product syndication with CartoonStock.

Free Range is often selected by readers as a 'favorite' on the GoComics website where it can be viewed daily on the GoComics website, or delivered to readers as an RSS feed or by email directly to their phone or tablet.

Bill Whitehead is a member of the cartoonist's professional society, The National Cartoonists Society. [