Lost Sheep Sherpa

August 15, 2003

Comics Sherpa, a ser­vice for “undis­cov­ered comics” pro­vided by Uni­ver­sal Syn­di­cate, Inc. allows what would be oth­er­wise con­sid­ered an under­ground comic to flour­ish or gain a readership.

Scott Kurtz (of PvPonline.com) explains:

Uni­ver­sal Press Syndicate’s web­comic host­ing ser­vice, Comics Sherpa has had some new light shed upon it.

The ser­vice is actu­ally $9.95 a month or $99 for the year. But that’s not the only thing, there’s a kicker.

Appa­rantly, and I’m try­ing to con­firm this, if you sign up for Comics Sherpa you do NOT sign away the rights to your comic, but you DO agree to give Uni­ver­sal Press first right of refusal on any offers you get.

Mean­ing, if a syn­di­cate or web­site likes your comic and wants to make you an offer, you have to give Uni­ver­sal Press Syn­di­cate a chance to match or beat the offer.”

Lost Sheep (by car­toon­ist Dan Thomp­son) is a hilar­i­ous comic about a sheep who has decided to leave the herd and go off on his own. His adven­tures and encoun­ters along the way pro­vide the hilar­ity to this great comic.

Rat­ing:  

4 comments

I just want to sec­ond that, Lost Sheep is a very funny + touch­ing strip that deserves much wider recog­ni­tion. We can never have too many enter­tain­ing but street­wise furry comic strips.

by David Brown on August 23, 2003 at 2:21 pm. Reply #

I agree, David.

Thank you for your com­ments! I emailed the cre­ator of the strip and he acknowl­edges the praise.
:)

by kartooner on August 25, 2003 at 8:53 pm. Reply #

I think it’s great too, but for my money, cow tools, on the same site, is one of the fun­ni­est strips going… prob­a­bly too clever for the mainstream.

by larry clark on September 18, 2003 at 7:47 pm. Reply #

Awe­some comic strip. Gotta laugh at the human­ity of it all. We are a “lost sheep” and Thomp­son has cap­tured the per­son­al­ity of the wan­der­ing lamb in all of us. Love it!!!!

by Laura on November 16, 2004 at 12:45 am. Reply #

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