Monty is an American comic strip created, written and illustrated by cartoonist Jim Meddick.

[2] It originally depicted the exploits of a small robot from outer space visiting Earth, living with the ordinary Milde family.

Shelley later worked with United Feature Syndicate in an attempt to push Robotman via cross-marketing toys, records, videos, and other merchandise.

)[6] Robotman was gradually phased out of the strip through a farewell storyline in 2001 in which he left Earth to find love on the planet Diskelion.

[7] As the website announces, the comic strip "spoofs suburbia, trashes tacky TV shows and offers absurdist commentary on everything from hosing down spider monkeys to the latest conspiracy theory."