Carpe Diem is a gag panel comic strip by Swedish cartoonist Niklas Eriksson, syndicated by King Features. "Inspired by Gary Larson's The Far Side and Dan Piraro's Bizarro, Carpe Diem takes timeless situations that happen in daily life and spin them on their head, casting them anywhere from the dawn of the universe to modern-day couch potatoes, and every day in-between."[2]
| Carpe Diem | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Niklas Eriksson |
| Current status/schedule | ongoing, daily[1] |
| Launch date | (with King Features) May 4, 2015 |
| Syndicate(s) | King Features Syndicate |
| Genre(s) | Gag, humor |
Publication history
editCarpe Diem was launched in c. 2007, winning "the Pondus Award, Sweden’s biggest comic prize, in 2008. Since that time the strip has been distributed throughout Scandinavia."[3]
Carpe Diem began being syndicated by King Features in May 2015, with it landing in 80 newspapers, an impressive debut figure given the shrinkage in the newspaper industry.[2]
References
edit- ^ Tribune Staff (Dec 1, 2015). "New comic strip, Carpe Diem, runs seven days a week". Great Falls Tribune.
- ^ a b Tornoe, Rob (13 July 2013). "Digital Funnies". Editor & Publisher. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015.
- ^ "NEW DAILY COMIC STRIP, SWEDISH IMPORT "CARPE DIEM," SET TO TAKE THE STATES BY STORM" (Press release). King Features. May 1, 2015.
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