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Diesel Sweeties picked up by United Feature Syndicate
By StacMaster-S
Published: September 4, 2006
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 R. Steven's Diesel Sweeties, which has been published online since 2000, has just been picked up by Universal Feature Syndicate as an honest to goodness syndicated print comic. The biggest news in this deal, is that Stevens will be retaining ownership over his characters and will continue to have full control over his merchandise sales... a rare occurance in syndicated comic strips.
While a whole new series of DS strips will be appearing in papers with the same characters, Stevens will continue creating original strips for the website as well, essentially running two completely seperate versions of the strip at the same time.
Here is Steven's post on the subject from his site:
"Starting on January 8, 2007 Diesel Sweeties is going to be running in newspapers through United Feature Syndicate. These syndicated strips will also be showing up on comics.com, A.K.A. the best URL ever. Web-only and archived strips will still be here, same as always. We signed the papers a couple weeks ago and I'm still kind of shell-shocked. I'm working hard to finish the sample strips. The newspaper comics are going to be all-new strips with the same characters, seven days a week.
It's a pretty cool deal: I get to do newspaper comics, while still maintaining my own copyright, website and t-shirts. The best part for me is that there will still continue to be new comics here on the DS site! A big part of how I maintain my "sanity" is by staying up late writing comics and posting them the moment they're done. Continuing to have that flexibility in addition to working weeks in advance for syndication is really important to me and I'm extremely glad to still have it.
I'm psyched to get to do the one job I really wanted as a kid, while still maintaining my identity as web cartoonist. Throw in a pony and I'll have burned through all three wishes in one go.
I still get chills every time I think about making Sunday comics. I just finished my first two last week and it was ... surreal. They were Sunday comics, but I got to write and draw them. Insane. I honestly never thought I'd ever have a chance to be in papers. You readers should make out pretty well, too. There'll be more comics to read and hopefully I'll grow as a writer by working in new formats."
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