Carpe Diem
Author(s)Niklas Eriksson
Current status/scheduleongoing, daily[1]
Launch date(with King Features) May 4, 2015
Syndicate(s)King Features Syndicate
Genre(s)Gag, humor

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]

Publication history

Carpe 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

  1. ^ Tribune Staff (Dec 1, 2015). "New comic strip, Carpe Diem, runs seven days a week". Great Falls Tribune.
  2. ^ a b Tornoe, Rob (13 July 2013). "Digital Funnies". Editor & Publisher. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015.
  3. ^ "NEW DAILY COMIC STRIP, SWEDISH IMPORT "CARPE DIEM," SET TO TAKE THE STATES BY STORM" (Press release). King Features. May 1, 2015.

External links

King Features Syndicate comics
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