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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 saying [...]
Posted on: Jan 12, 2010, Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 12 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; and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: 21 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), [...]
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
Review: “Deflocked” by Jeff Corriveau
Title: Deflocked Creator: Jeff Corriveau Syndicate: King Features Launch Date: May 5, 2008 Rating (out of 5): King Features launched it’s second feature of the year yesterday with Deflocked by Jeff Corriveau. The feature sports a cast of four characters, a wayward sheep named Mamet, Cobb, the morally centered dog, Rupert a naive, but devoted [...]
Posted on: May 6, 2008, Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 34 Comments
Comic book heroine coming to newspapers
Heroic Publishing has announced that they are selling a weekly newspaper comic strip based on their comic book character “Flare”. The new offering begins May 4 and will be distributed through Hometown Content editorial syndicate. In the vein of such successful American strips as PvP and Liberty Meadows, the FLARE comic strip offers a unique [...]
Posted on: Apr 14, 2008, Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 0 Comments
Keith Knight launches “Knight Life”
United Media is launching a few feature by Keith Knight entitled The Knight Life on May 5th. The political and satirical feature is described as tackling “contemporary issues like consumer culture, bacon, the media, race, family and everything else, gently mocking the minutiae of daily life with self-deprecating humor, honesty and goofiness.” “Keith Knight became [...]
Posted on: Apr 8, 2008, Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 42 Comments
Argyle Sweater Launches With 130 Clients
Today is Scott Hilburn’s Argyle Sweater official launch day and Universal Press reports that it has a beginning client list of 130 plus papers. Some of the big papers that have signed up include: The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune and the New York Daily News. The Argyle [...]
Posted on: Apr 7, 2008, Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 11 Comments
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