Deon Parsons announced on social media that King Features Syndicate will soon make his Rosebuds comic strip available for your print newspaper’s Sunday Funnies. From Dee’s Facebook page:
I HAVE NEWS TO SHARE:
King Features is bringing Rosebuds to Sunday newspaper comics pages across the NATION September 1st!
Soon, you, too will be able to read Rosebuds alongside Garfield, Peanuts, Beetle Bailey, Zits, and other legendary comics!
I can’t believe that the things I’ve been inspired by all my life is a legitimate reality for my work.
There’s still a lot of work to do!
Rosebuds first appeared four years ago when The Anderson (Ind.) Herald Bulletin started running it on a weekly basis and GoComics carried it twice weekly. Earlier this year Dee Parsons took the strip to Comics Kingdom where it is running three times a week. Now the Sunday version will be available to print newspapers (call your local).
The vitals:
Rosebuds
by Deon (Supr Dee) Parsons, aka Dee Parsons)
Anderson Herald Bulletin (weekly): August 8, 2020 – (unsure if it is still in print there)
King Features Syndicate (Sundays): September 1, 2024 –
[first appeared, twice weekly, on GoComics August 10, 2020,
debuted, thrice weekly, on Comics Kingdom April 14, 2024]
Edited later that same day to add:
Deon “Super Dee” Parson is about to make history with his cartoon “Rosebuds.”
After years of hard work and honing his craft, the 29-year-old cartoonist from Anderson, Indiana will see his comic series “Rosebuds” syndicated — or regularly published in local or national newspapers — in Sunday newspapers across the country Sept. 1.
“It’s so fun, like being able to do this, because, like, my career path is so weird,” Parson said. “Next year will be at least 10 years since I first started my first comic professionally. So, this has been a long time coming for everyone that’s been following me and my work.”
The Indianapolis Recorder carries the story of Deon making the syndicated comic strip heights.
It seems a syndicate price war was involved:
“Rosebuds” was initially picked up for Andrews McMeel Syndication and GoComics website in March of this year. However, after a bidding war, Parson said King Features Syndicate picked it up to publish in the Sunday editions of local and national papers across the country — including some in Indiana.
Unfortunately, the industry of creating cartoons and comic strips for newspapers is not very saturated. Fewer artists enter the industry each year, and those who are syndicated are even fewer. Parson, however, is making history as the first Black cartoonist in Indiana to be syndicated since the 1920s.
