Work begins on a Daily Jurascals comic strip!

The Jurascals characters have a lot to say and a daily comic strip would showcase their stories really well so I have begun the next phase of the Jurascals venture by working on a daily comic strip. Keeping the details quiet for now however it should be noted:  I think a LOCAL comic strip has greater value than a nationally syndicated one that speaks to everyone and yet no one at the same time. So by local I mean there would be a great value in having the characters walk through an actual city/town and get into adventures there. Bear in mind, the comic strip doesn't have to be local to ME but has to be local to the readers of the particular newspaper.

The purpose of a comic strip is to sell a specific newspaper.

There used to be such a thing as exclusivity where one newspaper printed one comic strip and the competitor printed another one and let the better comic strip prevail! This has not really been the case for a long time. The same comic strips are written to be sold to all markets within the country (and potentially to outside the country) and to the same papers in the same markets (for the most part). When I travel to different regions of the country, I love watching the local news and reading the local newspaper yet the comic strip section winds up being the same page in every region, wholly uninspiring in terms of learning about that location. In fact on that one note, I learn nothing about the region by looking at that page.

I would love to see a resurgence of comicstrips. I believe they have the ability to expand newspaper readership if done correctly.  Local material is the reason why someone would buy a newspaper in the first place. I believe that should extend to comicstrips. There is a need for local editorial cartoons but beyond that, local stories can define a town or city or region and that is found in the local news but could even be found in the fiction form of the comic strip.

So that is the focus as I work on this daily for Jurascals.