The Daily Cartoonist

Not DAILY, but Steve York does a local color comic strip called “Captain Zero” for his newspaper, The Daily Journal.

http://daily-journal.com/archives/dj/display.php?id=402821

My previous comic strip, The Family Monster, ran in the Colorado Daily (Boulder, CO) for about four years. My current comic is carried by them, even though I don’t live there anymore.

Doing a local daily is a great experience. Lots of people don’t even realize you’re local (probably because there are so few who are).

I’m not syndicated yet, but having that deadline made me produce much more work than if I was just toiling away alone.

Hello, My name is Jim Adams and I write and draw a daily strip called “Adams’ Apples”, for “The Oregonian” in Portland,OR. My strip began running July 17th 2006. (over a year now!)I’m a full-time elementary school teacher and “Adams’ Apples” is based largely on my experience in the classroom. “The Oregonian” is Portland’s major paper with a daily circulation of just under 420,000.

That’s pretty cool guys. Could you post a link of some samples? Do you get any more interest from syndicates already being carried by at least one paper, or do you still only get the form letter treatment?

BTW - back in the day (college in the mid-seventies) our college paper carried Travels with Farely, as did the Chicago Tribune when I moved there … this is the same strip right? If so, I thought it was a good strip, what caused it to become a local, unsyndicated strip? Lack of sales?

Frank and Farley have left the building, god I’ll miss them…

Jim Adams: I am an Oregonian unfortunate enough to be exposed to your strip in the paper everyday. I would strongly suggest you quit both of your jobs immediately. Teaching because you seem to hate it and your students so much, and cartooning becasue YOURS IS THE WORST STRIP I HAVE EVER ENDURED.

to S Wilson,

How does a person ENDURE a comic strip? If you don’t care for the strip, don’t read it.
There will never be a strip, book, TV show, movie,etc that EVERYONE likes. The most popular comic strips, are often simultaneously the most disliked.
As for your comment about me hating my job; Do you mean like Dilbert hating his job or Dagwood hating his boss? It’s called humor!

- Jim A.

Jim,

Congratulations on getting into The Oregonian. When Dick Johnson (a very nice man, btw) was responsible for their comic pages for those many years before he retired, they wouldn’t risk going with independent cartoonist. I’m glad that policy has changed. I wish you continued success.

to, Dawn,

Thanks for the positive energy, I do not presently have a website. However, I’ll have some time for my marketing efforts this summer. A website would be a good thing. Some book publishers have asked permission to reprint three of my stips in some upcoming college textbooks, which is kinda cool. Adams’ Apples appears 6 days a week, so I’m up to just shy of 600 strips so far. I can be reached directly at appletoons@yahoo.com

- Jim

Jim,

I just want to let you know I really like your comics. I’m an aspiring teacher myself and I think the jokes are funny. Yours is one of the first ones I want to read when I open up the paper! Keep up the good work!

If you think “Adams’ Apples” is the worst strip around, even just in the Oregonian then you’ve hardly read anything. AA is a good strip, head and heels above most of the more popular older strips. Have you seen Family Circus? Haggar the Horrible? Close to Home? Give the man some credit for trying to do something basically unheard of - independently doing a print comic strip.