2024 Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed – Part One: Debuts and Departures
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This is an installment of 2024 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.
(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed)
2024 DEBUTS
These comic strips and panels began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2024.
BREAK OF DAY
by Nate Fakes
January 1, 2024 –
daily panel
King Features Syndicate
previously self syndicated ??? – ???
DUMPLINGS
by Victor Van Acker
(August 7?), 2024 –
King Features Syndicate
first appeared online August 27, 2023 (Comics Kingdom)
INSANITY STREAK
by Tony Lopes
(August 7?), 2024 –
King Features Syndicate
Australian import
MR. MAYOR
by Ryan D. Wilson
June 4, 2024 –
weekly
Clay Center & Clay County (Kansas) Dispatch
RAFIE AND FRIENDS
by Gary & Anne Christensen and Ann Croshaw
weekly
June 19, 2024 – 2024?
The Clermont Sun
SHIFTS
by Beatrix Lockwood and Maya Scarpa
August 26, 2024 – September 18, 2024
twice weekly (Mondays & Wednesdays)
The Washington Post
ROSEBUDS
by Deon Parsons (aka $upr Dee)
September 8, 2024 –
Sunday only in print
King Features Syndicate
originally printed as a weekly strip from August 8, 2020 – ??????
in The Anderson (Indiana) Herald Bulletin
first appeared online August 10, 2020 (GoComics)
immigrated to Comics Kingdom (3xweekly) on April 14, 2024
2024 DEPARTURES
These comic strips and panels ceased new run appearances in U. S. newspapers in 2024.
But first a couple that ended in 2023 that were missed last year:
SPECTICKLES
by Bill Abbott
dailies: October 5, 2016 – December 16, 2023
Sundays: January 1, 2017 – August 26, 2023
Creators Syndicate
daily reruns begin December 18, 2023
first appeared in Ink Bottle’s Funnies Extra in 2012
began an Ottawa Citizen run on May 24, 2014 as “Specticles.”
ONE BIG HAPPY
by Rick Detorie
Sundays: September 11, 1988 – December 25, 2022
dailies: September 12, 1988 – December 30, 2023
Sunday reruns began January 1, 2023;
daily reruns began January 1, 2024.
Creators Syndicate
On to 2024.
EARL (originally titled RANCHIN’ WITH EARL)
by Wally Badgett as M. C. Tin Star
October 27, 1994 – February 23, 2024
weekly panel
self-syndicated/Laid-Back West Syndicate June 1996-July 2009/Big Dry Syndicate July 2009 on
titled Ranchin’ With Earl through May23, 1997; Earl May 30, 1997 on
ANGELS FROM THE ATTIC (aka: THE MAGICAL ATTIC)
by Mark Marderosian
2011 (at least September 21) – March 2024
weekly
Gatehouse Media 2011- January 2021/Tribune News Service March 2020 on
The Magical Attic began March 2020 and ran concurrent with
Angels From the Attic until Angels ended in January 2021.
(Angels reruns ran until November 2021)
The Magical Attic title continues as a fun/puzzle page, but no comic strips after March 2024
though Marderrosian promises more strip format in the future.
The characters were created in 2007.
FORT KNOX
by Paul Jon Boscacci
daily: October 1, 2009 – October 19, 2024
Sunday: October 11, 2009 – November 10, 2024
Washington Post Writers Group
Norman Felchle artist for Memorial Day Sundays 2010-2013, 2016-2024
Norman Felchle cartoonist November 3, 2024
Stars and Stripes continued Fort Knox Sunday reruns after their October 17 weekend edition.
Additions and Corrections
Welcomed and Encouraged
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