How many continuity strips are still being syndicated ?
( " Mainstream " syndication/strips . )
Really , how many are left ?
Let's include " borderline " examples , so as not to leave any out -
And:
What are they ?
What's their distributing syndicate ?
Are they daily/Sunday ? Just one ?
If d/S , do they have seperate daily and Sunday storylines ?
Who are the creators now ?
When did the strip start ?
For real supersuper technicalness , is the Sunday a three-tier " half-page " ( Of which the top third , or just the last 3d of the top 3d , can be cut off . ) in format , or something else ?
Maybe all this is a little dry but I got the facts up .
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The syndicates/distributors I know of are King Features, Creators Syndicate and Universal Uclick. I didn't know about the last one before I started writing this; apparently it distributes what were the Universal Press Syndicate and United Media strips, and runs the Gocomics website.
I don't know we can assume all the strips listed at the outfits' websites appear in newspapers. Some of the material that appears at Gocomics is web-only (certainly Pipgorn). King Features's site lists Flash Gordon, but the strip ended several years ago. I think the listing means it still offers Jim Keefe reruns but I don't know if they actually run anywhere. A newspaper may run a strip at its website but not offer it in its printed edition.
...Thank you Luke , that's true .
One other old-guard American syndicate that I can remember is Tribune Media Services (emanating/originating from the Chicago Tribune - It was once the Chicago Tribune/New York News Syndicate , when that N.Y. tabloid was the Trib's " younger brother "paper , but the Tribune sold it off a long ways back) , whose strips seem to all be on Comic Strip Nation .
The syndicate of the " Grey Lady " , the New York Times Syndicate , at least in the past has offered comic strips - ironic since its parent paper is famous for " never running " comic strips !!!!!!! I always wondered about that .
What I really meant , however , was that I wanted each individual listing for each strip to list what its synie daddy is .
I do think the Jim O'Keefe FG strips are still offered to papers , probably mostly smaller newspapers perhaps from a separate "" small papers " subdivision of KFS that I recall the King page listing back when it was free and I went there regularly .
...I kind of assume , though , Luke , that any strip offered by any of the Major US syndicates is carried SOMEWHERE in a paper , and somewhere in the US as well...Granted , there could be exceptions to that , but let's just count " maybe "s anyway !!!...and forget , if we're going to get nervous , about the fact that , IIRC , in the 70s All Williamson and Archie Goodwin's SECRET AGENT CORRIGAN was apparently COMPLETELY uncarried in the USA at the time !!!!!!!!!
Really , let's just list all continuities - and if there's some " not in paper/in the U.S. anyay "s , frankly , I very much doubt that there are any existing continuities - Barring The Amazing Spider-Man . - whose start predates LBJ's election (late 1964) anyway - and THAT'S probably streching it !!!!!!!!!!!
...Also , to not bury this , soap opera/" slice of life " continuities should all be included .
I didn't SAY " adventure continuities " ya know ?????????
Hmm. The only newspaper strip that I'm reading that I think fits the bill would be Doonesbury. Yes, it's a comic strip, but the characters do age, grow old and die, and time keeps moving along.
Is Gasoline Alley still a going concern?
For Better Or For Worse is still running, but it ceased being a continuity strip years ago.
Thinking about it there aren't many strips--mainstream newspaper strips--that have allowed their characters to grow with the times.
...Yes , GASOLINE ALLEY is still going .
It's continuity daily , humor/" wit & wisdom "-cutesiness-aphorisms-nostalgia Sunday .
It has skated around the ramifications of its crucial concept , " aging like real life " , by having Uncle Walt , the last I heard , still with us - He owned his own business , house , and a had a servant in what , 1921 ?????????
This is getting to , if it hasn't passed yet , 112-114 years or so , the pretty much absolute maximum that a human has been shown to live in modern , measurable scientifically , times !!!
Randy Jackson said:
Walt Wallet's 120 if he's a day. I think they've skirted around bumping him off, but have been too timid to pull the trigger.
...Yeah , a few years ago they pulled a fakeout...Someone was indicated to having died , we switch to the funeral...of what turned out to be Walt's WIFE , not Walt...I hear tell that in the planned but cancelled GN version ( DAMN Diamond's unreasonable up-front minimum demands , anyhow ! ) , the extra pages would have shown that she succumbed to a hot Midwestern sumer afternoon , despite being near a pitcher of nice iced pink (with a purple stripe) lemonade(which she amnaged some last drinks from , before the final end...:-))...and was found , collapsed...in the refrigerator .
Hehehe .
The Baron said:
...I have just found out that a Roy Thomas-Thomas Grindberg new version of the TARZAN newspaper strip is or has already started !!!!!!!!!!!
Go to Roy's " official page " , the Alter-Ego-Fans group at Yahoo! , for details , I haven''t got any , I haven't accessed the strip yet .
Thanks for the heads-up. This page at the website All Pulp has links to promotional interviews with Thomas and Grindberg and a promotional advertisement which says the strip starts in October, which might mean next Sunday. The interviews have sample images. I can't find more information at the Burroughs website (a sound warning for those who click through). The promotional advertisement has an URL ending in /comics/, but apparently currently this either can't be visited if you're not registered at the website or can't be visited, I don't know which.
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