One of the syndicates seems to launch a new strip over or just past Labor Day weekend. This year any such release would have to contend with the re-runs of Calvin and Hobbes that are hitting papers for the Fall season in support of the forthcoming collection. King Features has started A Lawyer, A Doctor, & A Cop, Kieran Meehan's workplace gag feature; unless I'm remembering wrong, KFS Editor Jay Kennedy told me last summer that this is the first launch during his tenure of a cartoonist not from North America -- I believe Meehan is from Ireland, although there's nothing in the promotional package that indicates this or anything else about Meehan.
Mark Evanier notes that the 75th anniversary of Blondie will continue for a while longer as the Bumsteads go on a trip that should lead to some more of that oddly unsettling crossover action.
