Who and when does the distribution of Luann, comic strip, started?”
Comic strips are distributed to your local newspaper through companies called syndicates. Syndicates process and provide exclusive content to newspapers. That content includes advice columns, opinion pieces and comic strips. Peanuts? Syndicated. Dear Abby? Syndicated. Arriana Huffington? Syndicated. And so on. Syndication has become a big contributor to one very appealing aspect about the comic strip business. Namely, syndicates make it possible that a successful comic strip can be distributed to one hundred or one thousand extra papers with very little in the way of increased effort or hassle for the cartoonist. Syndicates feel very close to their cartoonists not just for the potential profit involved, but also because the distribution of comic strip is at the historical heart of their business. Cartoonists are typically paid half of what a strip brings in, while the syndicate keeps the other half. The amount cartoonists are paid depends on the size of the newspaper’s circulation — h
