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In 1980 John Michael Pugh, Susanne M. Pugh, and David K. Batsche, all of Mason, Ohio, joined together to form a syndicate to distribute comic strips to weekly and semi-weekly newspapers. In pursuit of that goal they began soliciting comic strip and panel submissions from cartoonists.
By mid-1981 The Cartoon Factory, Ltd. had signed a number of cartoonists and enough newspapers to begin.
The Cartoon Factory, Ltd. page of comics debuted on July 5, 1981 in The Morton County and Mandan News (North Dakota) with twelve comic strips and four comic panels taking up about a half broadsheet page.
For semi-weekly newspapers the page of comics could easily be split in half to run twice in a week.
The Chula Vista (CA) Star-News published on Thursdays and Sundays and so split The Cartoon Factory page.
The effort lasted less than a year, ending in March 1982; by that time occupying a full page in The Mandan News.
The Cartoon Factory stable of cartoonists and comics remained, well, stable throughout its nine months.
The Cartoon Factory, Ltd. list of comics and cartoonists:
Snavely by Ron Stanfield
Bottom Lines by Chuck Vaden
Gillbert by Mike Kreffel
Newsmonger Report by Jerry Steadham
Horse & Feathers by Fred Womack
Snouts by Mark Segelman
Clipper’s Ship by Craig Boldman and Jim Erskine
Sen. Boondoggle by Sears and Jerry Steadman
Bazar by Jared Lee
Tanglefoot by Gil Parcell
McCobber by Bob Zahn
Charley by Charles Marsh
Elf Squad by Ross (Gary R. Hoffman?)
Salty by Fran Matera
Mutts by GAG (Gregory A. Gilger)
Coach Gibbs by Lance Martin
Some of the cartoonists are familiar some are obscure,
we’ll take a look at half of them in The Cartoon Factory, Ltd. Part 2.
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