How to Submit a Comic Strip to a Syndicate

Posted by Anonymous , 9/4/2007 Tags:SubmitComicStripSyndicate

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Introduction You've created the next great comic strip, and you are intent on giving laughs to

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Introduction

You've created the next great comic strip, and you are intent on giving laughs to newspaper readers across the country. In order to get your strip published in the papers, you must first submit it to a syndicate. Syndicates act as agents for cartoonists who submit the strips to the newspapers for publication.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Steps

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Step One

Choose your thirty to forty best strips to submit. You should only have to include black-and-white daily strips. The syndicates will likely ask for Sunday strips only if they like the dailies.
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Step Two

Put the strips on a sheet of paper for easy reading and handling. Make sure they fit on a standard eight-by-eleven inch sheet.
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Step Three

Make photocopies of the strips. The syndicates should never want the originals for first submission.
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Step Four

Write up a description of the strip. Tell what the main theme and purpose of the strip is. Introduce and describe all the main characters.
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Step Five

Decide if you should copyright the strip first. With most major syndicates, this is not needed. Still, signing your name to each strip and contacting the U.S. Copyright office never hurts.
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Step Six

Mail the strips. Most syndicates still insist that you submit by mail and won't accept submissions by fax or emailed images.
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Step Seven

Wait for a response. The best first response you should hope for is one saying your strip is being considered for syndication.

Tips & Warnings

  • Submit your strip to as many syndicates as you can. Find out not only where to send the strip to, but how their submission guidelines may vary from the others.
  • The major syndicates receive thousands of submissions each year. Of all those strips, only a handful are chosen.
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