Maintaining

{{Short description|American comic strip by Nate Creekmore}}

{{distinguish|Maintaining (technical)}}

{{Infobox Comic strip

|title= Maintaining

|creator= Nate Creekmore

|current=

|status= Concluded daily strip

|syndicate=Universal Press Syndicate

|genre= Humor

|first= May 7, 2007

|last= August 1, 2009

|website=

| preceded by =

}}

Maintaining is a 2007-2009 comic strip by cartoonist Nate Creekmore.{{cite book |last1=Holtz |first1=Allan |title=American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide |date=2012 |publisher=The University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |isbn=9780472117567 |page=249}}

Creekmore is a two-time winner of the Scripps College Cartoonist of the Year and an Associated Press award for achievement in college cartooning. Creekmore's strip first appeared in the newspaper at Lipscomb University in Nashville. Maintaining was later picked up for syndication through Universal Press Syndicate. It was launched on May 7, 2007, and canceled in August 2009 for poor sales. The last daily strip was August 1, 2009.