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''Dustin'' is a daily comic strip created by Steve Kelley, editorial cartoonist for the ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'', and Jeff Parker, who holds the same position for ''Florida Today''.〔(New comic 'Dustin' tells tales of boomerang kid )〕 It is carried by King Features Syndicate and started running on January 4, 2010.〔(Introducing, "Dustin" )〕 ''Dustin'' won the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip in 2010.〔(National Cartoonists Society Division Awards ) (accessed 2012-06-13).〕 Focusing on the present boomerang generation and post-2008 recession period, it also deals with varying topics from everyday life and social commentary. ''Dustin'' was initially planned as a collaboration between Kelley and Steve Breen, who was Kelley's successor as the staff editorial cartoonist of the ''San Diego Union Tribune'' after Kelley was fired from that position in 2001. Breen later decided not to proceed with ''Dustin'', leading to a 2008 lawsuit by Kelley against the owners of the ''Union Tribune'', alleging that Breen had been improperly pressured not to collaborate with Kelley; the case was dismissed in 2009,〔Michael Cavna, ("The comic strip that ruined a friendship, rankled a newspaper and landed in court. And that was BEFORE being launched." ), ''The Washington Post'', November 12, 2009.〕 but reinstated in 2011.〔Don Bauder, ("Appeals Court Reinstates Kelley Suit Against U-T" ), ''San Diego Reader'', July 20, 2011.〕 At its outset ''Dustin'' was carried in more than 100 newspapers nationwide, and by October 2010 it had expanded to 300. In several papers, ''Dustin'' was the replacement strip for ''Cathy'', which ended its run in papers on October 3, 2010.〔http://www.bradenton.com/2010/10/04/2625345/meet-dustin-one-funny-comic-new.html〕 Among the papers that carried ''Dustin'' from the beginning was the ''New York Daily News'', but due to a recent cutback in the paper's comic section ''Dustin'', along with several other strips, were jettisoned from the paper. ==Characters== Dustin Kudlick, the titular character of the comic strip. A 23-year-old college graduate who failed to find regular employment in the current economy after graduating and thus moved back home to live with his parents. He is constantly trapped in a cycle of dead-end temp jobs and grueling manual labor, frequently shown putting in long hours at a car wash or asking his supervisor at the temp agency for more career-enhancing assignments that might help him break out of the cycle of wage slavery, not to mention troubling in developing relationships with women and a budding inventor. Despite his dysfunctional family atmosphere, Dustin remains stoic, a heroic everyman and inspiration to the reader, as he endures and strives, trying to find true employment and happiness. Ed Kudlick, Dustin's father, is an angry, bitter lawyer who despises Dustin's apparent laziness and is the strip's main antagonist. Ed is never supportive in any way, and always seeks to crush Dustin's attempts to find meaning and useful employment, ceaselessly mocking his son and putting him down, yet the only thing they have in common is their love of golf. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dustin (comic strip)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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