Conrad was a 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....

 about "America's favorite frog prince". Written and illustrated by Bill Schorr

Bill Schorr

Bill Schorr is an American cartoonist of syndicated editorial cartoons and comic strips.Schorr retired in March 2009 but came out of retirement by August of the same year.-Comic strips:...

, the strip was launched November 8, 1982. Syndicated by Tribune Media Services

Tribune Media Services

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, it had a run for over three years, ending June 7, 1986.

Characters and story

The frog Conrad, needing money to pay his bookie

Bookmaker

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, convinces the fat, dim-witted fairy tale

Fairy tale

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 princess that he is an enchanted prince who can be turned into a human by a kiss.

Other characters include the princess' father, the King, who is skeptical that Conrad is a prince, and resident witch Aggie, who grants spells and potions to the princess. Fido, the princess's pet alligator, thinks he is a dog.

More by Schorr

The strip did not catch on and was dropped in the summer of 1986. The award-winning editorial cartoonist Bill Schorr, however, went on to create three more comic strips–The Grizzwells (1987-present), Phoebe's Place (1990-1991) and Lunchbucket (1993, with Rex May).

Books

Two Conrad book collections were published in 1985.

Title	Cover	Publication Date	ISBN
Conrad		June, 1985	ISBN 0-671-50824-5
Short, Green and Conrad		December, 1985	ISBN 0-671-50825-3