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no press releases, please[edit]

I removed this passage because it is only marginally relevant. If someone wants to expand the article or write a new article on the history of syndication, it might belong there.

In 2005, cartoonist Joe Martin broke new ground when he quit Tribune Media Services, where his three comic strips, Mister Boffo, Willy 'n Ethel, and Cats with Hands, had all been syndicated for decades, and founded a new syndicate, Neatly Chiseled Features, to syndicate all of these and a new feature that he co-authored with Dr. Jon Carlson, On the Edge. This is the first new syndicate in twenty years.

I have wondered for years what newspapers pay for comic strips. I imagine it depends on the circulation of the paper, and the popularity of the strip. But I do not know if the range is pennies per day or dollars per day. I am perfectly aware that the amount a comic strip earns will have a huge range, with a strip that appears only in a couple of hundred small local newspapers earning 0.1% the amount a strip like Garfield earns from appearing in 1,200 larger regional papers. I am thinking the smallest comic appears in 200 papers each of which pays $1 a day, would generate a gross of $73,000 annually. Does the syndicate get 50%? 15%? Even at 50% the author would earn $36,500 annually. Modest, but livable. But something like Garfield which appears in 1,200 newspapers, might earn $10 a day, and the revenue would become $4,380,000 !

Does anyone know? Could you post it here? Nick Beeson (talk) 13:38, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Patent insides were part of the history of print syndication, and a consolidated article appears a stronger prospect at the moment. ^~Hydronium^~Hydroxide^~(Talk)~ 12:40, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I respectfully disagree. Although it's true that patent insides are a type of print syndication, the practice of shipping half-printed pages around is quite a bit different than other types of print syndication. We have a separate page for the Linotype machine, for example, rather than merging that into Typesetting. Pha telegrapher (talk) 21:46, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Pha telegrapher, sorry for the delay on this. I've removed the merge proposal given the level of detail you've added to PI (and will throw this page into my list of pages to be improved... sometime...). ^~Hydronium^~Hydroxide^~(Talk)~ 08:00, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]