The Daily Cartoonist

Dustin strip passes 100 client papers

Congrats to Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker whose recently launched Dustin has quickly jumped to the “more than 100 newspapers” category.
From the press release:
“Dustin is the most successful new comic to be introduced into syndication in recent years,” said George Haeberlein, King Features vice president, worldwide syndication sales. “It has been appearing in newspapers for [...]

Posted on: Mar 5, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 7 Comments

Creators to launch ‘Diamond Lil’ by Brett Koth

Creators Syndicate will launch a new comic by Brett Koth entitled Diamond Lil on March 1. In an interview with Scott Nickel, Brett described the feature as “Lillian Bilious is a blue-haired 75-year-old widow who has lived in the same house in the same small town all her life (Turkey Knuckle, Indiana). She enjoys [...]

Posted on: Jan 12, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 11 Comments

Kelley and Parker debut ‘Dustin’ today

Editorial cartoonists Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker are launching a new strip today through King Features Syndicate. The comic strip entitled Dustin, features a “‘boomerang kid,’ an adult who finds himself unemployed and back at home with his parents.” In an article in The Times-Picayune where Steve works as the staff cartoonists, Steve says the [...]

Posted on: Jan 4, 2010,  Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 4 Comments

Washington Post Writers Group to launch Fort Knox

Washington Post Writers Group is set to launch a new feature entitled Fort Knox for debut on October 5. The new feature is by Paul Jon, a military brat whose taken his childhood experiences of constant moving and resettling and turned it into a strip featuring a military family (Major Joe Knox; Jane Knox; [...]

Posted on: Jun 18, 2009,  Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Syndicates, WPWG, Comments: 12 Comments

Universal Press to launch “In the Sticks”

© Nathan Cooper
Universal Press Syndicate is launching a new comic strip called In the Sticks by Nathan Cooper. The strip centers on an ex-golf professional who inherits a nearly bankrupt golf club that is populated by three very odd animals who help him (more or less) keep the club running. The strip is tentatively set [...]

Posted on: Mar 11, 2009,  Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 12 Comments

Thompson talks about his new Rip Haywire strip

Tom Mason over at Comix 411 has an interview with Dan Thompson about his newly launched comic strip, Rip Haywire.
TOM: Can you trace the road from development to acceptance with Rip? How did it get from your desk to UFS and how long was the journey?
DAN: Once I came up with the idea of creating [...]

Posted on: Jan 15, 2009,  Section: Comic strips, Interviews, New Launches, Comments: 4 Comments

United Media launches Rip Haywire by Dan Thompson

United Media is launching a new contemporary action adventure comic strip on January 5, 2009 by Dan Thompson. The new feature is entitled Rip Haywire who is a soldier of fortune cast as a comic version of Indiana Jones, James Bond and Jason Bourne. Along for the ride in his adventures are his cowardly dog, [...]

Posted on: Dec 10, 2008,  Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 23 Comments

New free comic strip offered to newspapers

Ted Dawson (artist) and Max Weaver (writer) are offering a new comic to newspapers for free. The new comic, entitled Grubbs, is about an imaginative eight-year old boy, his imaginary friend Tyler and their exploits to torment his older siblings. The feature is offered for both daily and Sundays. The two plan on releasing comic [...]

Posted on: Oct 6, 2008,  Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 34 Comments

Review: W.T. Duck by Aaron Johnson

Title:
WT Duck

Creator:
Aaron Johnson

Syndicate:
Universal Press

Launch Date:
September 8, 2008 January 2009

Rating (out of 5):

Today marks the national launch of Aaron Johnson’s W.T. Duck for print syndication. I’ve been a fan of Aaron’s comic since he created the syndication bingo back in late 2006 (see here, here and here), and was excited to learn that Universal Press [...]

Posted on: Sep 7, 2008,  Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 12 Comments

Creators to launch “The Barn” in October

Creators Syndicate will launch a new comic strip on October 27 entitled The Barn by Ralph Hagen. Ralph has been drawing professionally for over 30 years. He was the editorial cartoonist for two papers in Stony Plain, Alberta for 16 years and has been featured in The Saturday Evening Post, Reader’s Digest and has done [...]

Posted on: Aug 26, 2008,  Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 5 Comments

Continental Features launches two new features

E&am;p reports that Continental Features is launching two new features entitled Gilley & Wynn by Daryl Jay Frank’s and Blackouts by Ellsworth E. Jackson. A quick search for cartoon samples could not be found.

Posted on: Aug 7, 2008,  Section: New Launches, Comments: 4 Comments

What the Duck is renamed; to launch September 8

Aaron Johnson’s What the Duck has been renamed to W.T. Duck and has a launch date of September 8. W.T. Duck first began as filler on Aaron’s band’s web site, but quickly gained a following. In December of 2006, he created “Syndication Bingo” to document his attempt to syndicate the strip. Universal signed him up [...]

Posted on: Jul 16, 2008,  Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 32 Comments