Signe Wilkinson’s Family Tree has been launched and according to the Yakima Herald-Republic it launched in more than 75 newspapers. Piers Baker’s’ feature, Ollie and Quentin has also launched today. I don’t have numbers for Piers’ feature. I have the press kit and will be posting my review of Family Tree and Ollie and Quentin […]
Last week I told you that United Features will be launching a new feature called Family Tree by Philadelphia Daily News editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson.Here is the first peak at the feature:Family Tree is described as a sophisticated contemporary family comedy whose initial clients include the Seattle Times, Detroit Free Press, Denver Rocky Mountain News […]
United Media will be launching a new feature in January by Philadelphia Daily News editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson. The new featured, entitled “Family Tree” is described as a “topical without being overly political.”In talking with Editor and Publisher’s Dave Astor, Signe indicated that she was approached by United Media’s acquisition and development editor Ted Rall […]
Creators syndicate will launch a Canadian feature entitled Chuckle Bros on Monday. The comic is by Brian and Ron Boychuk and drawn by Ronnie Martin. It was picked up last year by Torstar Syndication Services and launched with seven papers according to this article in the Calgary Herald. Over the course of a year, it […]
Aaron Johnson, creator of the What the Duck web comics and the syndication bingo game (see announcement, update, progress report), tells me that it’s official – he’s signed a development contract with Universal Press Syndicate that guarantees a 2009 launch (at the latest). The paper has expressed interest in changing the feature’s name before it’s […]
For those counting, Randy Glasbergen is set to launch his third concurrent syndicated comic feature Thin Lines through Creator’s Syndicate on November 12th. Already, Randy produces 11 cartoons a week for his The Better Half feature distributed through King Features and four a week panel (Cartoons by Randy Glasbergen) through through DRB Media. Thin Lines […]
Richard Thompson’s Cul-De-Sac officially launches today. According to Universal Press, it launched with an above average number of papers (70) including the Detroit Free Press, the Boston Globe, the Portland Oregonian, the Houston Chronicle and the Toronto Star. It should be up on GoComics today, but I just checked and it’s not yet available.
The Washington Post Writers Group has picked up It’s All About You by Tony Murphy and will be launching the feature on December 31st.From the description on the syndicate’s site, The YouTube generation meets Seinfeld in It’s All About You, a new daily and Sunday comic strip by Tony Murphy. “The strip’s title is sort […]
The new King Features comic strip Arctic Circle, by Alex Hallatt launched yesterday. If it’s not running in your local paper, you can see samples over on KFS’ web site or through their Daily Ink subscription service. I’ve read through the press kit that contained samples of the first month of strips and highly enjoyed […]
King Features will be launching a new comic on August 27. The new feature, Arctic Circle by Alex Hallatt, is a bout a trio of penguins who emigrate from Antarctica to the Arctic. The strip centers on the friendship between three charismatic penguins, Oscar, Ed and Gordo, who move to the North Pole to escape […]
Creators Syndicate recently posted samples of their new feature – Free Range by Bill Whitehead.Here’s another homepage to the comic, although it’s obviously incomplete.No announcement so far on when this comic will begin appearing in newspapers.
Cul De Sac © Richard Thompson; Distributed by Universal Press Syndicate Richard Thompson’s new feature Cul De Sac just might be the break away comic strip release this year and not because it has some big name endorsements from Bill Watterson and Pat Oliphant, but because it is a really polished feature that has some […]
Secret Asian Man © Tak Toyoshima / Dist. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Used by permissionUnited Media will be launching a new feature on July 16 called Secret Asian Man by Tak Toyoshima. The feature centers around Osamu “SAM” Takahashi, a struggling comic strip artist, who is a second generation Japanese American growing up in […]
Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac has been picked up by Universal Press for syndicate this September. Richard Thompson, is perhaps better known for his weekly comic, Richard’s Poor Almanac that runs in the Washington Post. Cul de Sac was also a weekly created for the Post and has ran in that paper for the last […]
Last March I told you about Brad Gilchrist and Peter Menice’s new comic strip The Green House which they are launching on Earth Day (this Sunday). The strip is going the route of self-syndication. Greener living is the long-term goal of Gilchrist and Menice, who are marketing their comics through Internet subscriptions and through self-syndication […]