Heart of the City is a comic strip created by Mark Tatulli and currently drawn by Christina "Steenz" Stewart that began syndication by Universal Press Syndicate on November 23, 1998. It is currently syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. The strip centers on a young girl, named Heart, who lives in Philadelphia.

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In the strip for April 6, 2020, Tatulli acknowledged the Coronavirus pandemic and its "social distancing" mandates (in the form of wearing Star Wars helmets to the grocery store), one of the first daily comic strips to do so. On April 27, 2020, Mark Tatulli handed over the strip to a new artist, Christina "Steenz" Stewart. Their first strip, appearing that day, established that Heart and Dean were now in middle school.

Upcoming animated series

On July 18, 2022, it was announced that Heart of the City would be adapted as an animated series. The series will be a co-production between Andrews McMeel Publishing and Canadian animation Slap Happy Cartoons. The series will use designs from the Steenz run of the strip.

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