Heart of the City is a comic strip created by Mark Tatulli that began syndication by Universal Press Syndicate on November 23, 1998. On April 27, 2020, Christina 'Steenz' Stewart took over the comic, making them the only nonbinary African-American cartoonist on the mainstream funny pages. It is currently syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association (a division of Andrews McMeel Syndication, parent company of Universal Press Syndicate).