Universal offers papers month of Cul de Sac for free

Universal Uclick is offering newspapers a free month of Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac with a commitment to run it for another six. This is the first time I’ve seen such an offer posted on a syndicate website (but admit I don’t check the sales side of their sites frequently).

11 thoughts on “Universal offers papers month of Cul de Sac for free

  1. I’m guessing most newspapers won’t want to change their layout even for a month, but it would seem a great way to get new readers/papers if they would. The other problem is it is almost impossible for papers to tell what the interest level is (as has been discussed ad infinitium here). Anyway, I hope it nets some more papers for Cul De Sac.

  2. Going out on a limb here, I’d say we will never see a new comic strip hit the 500-newspaper mark again. I’d be shocked if we ever saw a 300.*

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    *That’s real 300, not syndicate’s “300.”

  3. Maybe a New York City area newspaper – Daily News or NY Post or Newsday – could test Cul De Sac for a month or 6 months.

  4. I hope lots of papers take advantage of this offer because Cul de Sac, while it may at first glance seem like just one more family comic, is deeper, funnier, better written, more imaginative, and better drawn than most of the other family fare.

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