Diesel Sweeties Pre-Launched 01/01





When looking at Alan Gardner's dissection of the comic strip landscape after newspapers picked replacements for Bill Amend's suspended FoxTrot dailies, which likely meant a high three-figure number in terms of slots opening up on the page, I wondered out loud why Universal hadn't moved up Diesel Sweeties' launch date a week to better serve as a more natural replacement. It looks like they did -- only in an unofficial way, with a handful of newspapers starting R. Stevens' feature on January 1 rather than with January 8's formal launch. I've since learned that this is a special batch of strips created just for those few newspapers, which if Diesel Sweeties hits should make the first collection very desirable for fans who did not get them in their local paper.

The above photos are from a newspaper that added the strip straight-away and from the feature's try-out in the Seattle Times. The Times is probably less aggressive than its competitor the Post-Intelligencer in adding new strips, so that would be a quality pick-up for DS.

Looking at Dirk, I find out Comixpedia beat me to these photos.
 
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