Star Hawks 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....

 written first by Ron Goulart

Ron Goulart

Ron Goulart is an American popular culture historian and mystery, fantasy and science fiction author.The prolific Goulart wrote many novelizations and other routine work under various pseudonyms: Kenneth Robeson , Con Steffanson , Chad Calhoun, R.T...

 and later by Archie Goodwin

Archie Goodwin (comics)

Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on a number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is best known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work...

, with artwork by Gil Kane

Gil Kane

Eli Katz who worked under the name Gil Kane and in one instance Scott Edward, was a comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s and every major comics company and character.Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and...

. It began on October 3, 1977 and ran through 1981.

Kane received the National Cartoonist Society Story Comic Strip Award for 1977 for his work on the strip.

Publication history

In 1978, shortly after the launch of the strip, Kane recalled its genesis:

Format

The daily strip was unique in that it was two-tier: Each daily was twice as large as the normal daily strip. This format allowed artist Kane great flexibility in layout. However it greatly hampered efforts to sign on papers to carry the strip. The strip ran daily and Sunday for three and a half years, for a total of 1,252 strips.