Meebo and Zuky is 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....

 in the British children's comic The Beano

The Beano

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. It was introduced as one of three new strips in the Beano's Comic Idol

Comic Idol

Comic Idol is a competition held in The Beano every few years. In it, 3 to 6 new strips , run as guest strips in Beano for a few weeks, and the most popular, determined by votes, gets a permanent place in the Beano . See below for a full list of winners and the losing strips...

 competition, in June 2010, where the winner gets a permanent place in the comic. It was up against Home Invasion

Home Invasion

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, about green aliens who want to invade Earth, and Uh, Oh, Si Co!, about a boy who'd get angry at the slightest annoyance. After three weeks of voting, the winner was announced to be Meebo & Zuky, so from the next week they were launched properly. It is still in the comic today, meaning it has lasted longer than previous CI winners Vic Volcano

Vic Volcano

Vic Volcano was a short lived fictional comic character in The Beano. The comic strip was about a boy with a literally fiery temper. He was a character that was easily offended and easy to make angry. Whenever he had such a temper, smoke would come out of his ears and fire would come out of his...

, Zap Zodiac

Zap Zodiac

Zap Zodiac was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. Drawn by Steve Horrocks, it first appeared in issue 3259, dated 1 January 2005, as part of Comic Idol- a selection of three comic strips to be voted in by Beano readers...

 and Nicky Nutjob

Nicky Nutjob

Nicky Nutjob is a cartoon character and winner of The Beano's Comic Idol 2006 reader poll, drawn by artist Eddie Savino. He became a regular character in May 2006. The premise of the story is that Nicky's dad is an eccentric inventor, but his gadgets always go wrong, causing mayhem for Nutjob Jnr...

. However, it hasnt lasted as long as Tim Traveller

Tim Traveller

Tim Traveller was a fictional character and comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. He first appeared in issue 2862, dated 24 May 1997, as part of a continuing set of six new comic strips where the one with the most votes would be voted into the comic by readers.The first strip featured Tim looking...

, Crazy for Daisy

Crazy for Daisy

Crazy for Daisy was a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. First appearing in issue 2865, dated 14 June 1997, it was part of an ongoing selection of six comic strips that were to be voted into the comic by readers. This strip was the winner, beating Camp Cosmos, Have a Go Jo, Sydd and Trash Can...

, The Three Bears

The Three Bears

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, Freddie Fear

Freddie Fear

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, Colin the Vet

Colin the Vet

Colin the Vet was a fictional character who had his own comic strip in the UK comic The Beano between 2004 and 2006. As the name implies, the strip was about a veterinarian called Colin, who encounters all sorts of crazy animals. The strip was drawn solely by Duncan Scott...

 or Joe Jitsu

Joe Jitsu

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. It is drawn by Laura Howell

Laura Howell

Laura Howell is a British-born comic strip artist. She is the first female artist in the history of The Beano comic, and responsible for "Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green", "Les Pretend" and Beano Manga. She also drew Billy the Cat in the Special 70 Years Beano, and two Minnie the Minx strips...

, who has also drawn Beano Manga, Ratz

Ratz

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 and Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green

Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green

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 for The Beano.

The strip involves Meebo (a cat

Cat

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) and Zuky (a dog

Dog

The domestic dog is a domesticated form of the gray wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The dog may have been the first animal to be domesticated, and has been the most widely kept working, hunting, and companion animal in...

) who fight like cat and dog. The strip shares many characteristics with a number of older DC Thomson comic strips such as Kat and Kanary, from the Beano, and Puss 'n' Boots, from the Sparky. The strips often involve Meebo and Zuky being cruel to one other, usually for no reason or revenge. The strips make use of cartoon violence with cartoon decapitations and dismemberments being common making this strip probably the most violent one that has ever been in The Beano. The strip also occasionally parodies film genres and one strip featured Barack Obama.