I’m happy to finally share some big news I’ve been sitting on for over a year. I will be launching a second comic strip through King Features in 2012, and that second comic strip is GIL.
For those of you unfamiliar, GIL was a rejected syndicate submission that I turned into a web-comic in 2008. Despite it being a very personal and rewarding strip that was very well received by its online audience, I pulled the plug on it in 2009 to focus on other projects. I decided to resubmit it for syndication in 2010 using the best of the strips I developed on the web as samples, and well … the planets aligned, and I was offered a contract.
I’ve been developing GIL with King Features since last December, and it is now slated to launch in January of 2012. It’s been a long road, but I’m absolutely thrilled to finally have the opportunity to share GIL through syndication.
Speaking of which, my editor Brendan Burford had the great idea to launch a blog where he and I talk about GIL’s development process, as well as the syndication process in general. Check it out at www.gilcomics.com. If you’ve ever wondered how a comic strip gets all the way from submission to syndication, this is going to be a one-of-a-kind peek behind the curtain, so don’t miss it!
Brendan and I will be blogging about the process weekly right up until GIL launches. We kicked it all off with a podcast interview hosted by silver-voiced comics aficionado, Tom Racine from Tall Tale Features, and Geek Papas!
So check out the Gil Development Blog, check out Tall Tale Features, and help me usher in 2012 with a new comic strip! I’m very excited!
-Norm
CONGRATS, NORM!
But wow, 2 strips at the same time. Good thing you have a backlog of Gill strips to work with for a while.
Congratulations, Norm. I’m glad to see Gil get a big second chance here. Here’s hoping to Gil to stay around for years to come.
Yay!
Oh man… Starting out a crappy Monday, I needed good news and I got…. GREAT NEWS!!!! I love GIL! Thanks for the news and CONGRATS of such a massive sort to you, Norm! Oh man, this is fantastic!!!! I am gonna head over to the new site, hoping there is an RSS feed. If there ain’t, hopefully there will be one soon. Again, Congratulations and oh wow! YAY!!
Hooray! Gil is great! and now we get him back!
Hey, thanks everyone!
Great news Norm! I love Gill and am delighted to see it return, especially in this way. I guess you’re going to give up on sleeping now.
Congratulations! I enjoyed Gil during its original run.
@Piers: I hear sleep is overrated
You cannot imagine how happy this makes me. I loved the strip and was very sad to see it end. Psyched as all get out to find out it’s coming back.
This is very good news. I’ve been missing the guy.
wohooo! congrats
Wow, I need to check here more often! I enjoyed Gil through its run and am very glad to see it returning!