Day By Day on your cellphone

You know, this has been available for months, but I forgot to mention it when I first got the email.

Hey, it’s better than Rip van Winkle time. That’d be twenty years.

SmashPhone, a mobile phone comic strip network, today announced it’s bringing Amy DeZeller’s Dating Amy and Chris Muir’s Day by Day comic strips to mobile phones everywhere. Viewers can access the SmashPhone Comic Strip Network through Verizon, Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile and many other carriers. The comics are served by SmashPhone for free (although phone company data charges may apply).

This may be the first and last press release ever quoted on my blog.

Chris Muir’s Day by Day comic strip is based on each day’s political events. How’s that for topical? This shoot-from-the-hip toon follows four characters and their reactions to news and thoughts of the day. Day by Day garnered 12,000 loyal daily readers by encouraging websites to embed the daily comic strip freely. “Comic strips have to be on mobile,” says Muir. “It’s adapt or die! All the market growth is on phones, especially with kids and comic strips.” Muir said he chose SmashPhone because they can reach more phones than anyone else (over 1.2B phones).

I have worked in P.R. before, and I have to smile as I read the release. You know, people like to write pretend press releases, and they always—always—get the style wrong.

Well, except for me, but that’s because I’m that good. (And because I worked in the industry. But mostly because I’m THAT good.)

Sorry for the delay, Chris. Good thing I was cleaning out my emailbox, hm?