Editors, Publishers, and Webmasters,
You can get Life in the Trap for your newspaper, magazine, or website for free. Printed syndication started in January 2005 and now millions of people read Life in the Trap each month because of magazines, newsletters, and newspapers just like yours. Below are most of the questions regarding syndication. If your questions are not answered here please feel free to email me.
Thanks for your interest ~ Rick
To sign up for syndication you just need to send me an email with the information below:
1) Name of your company.
2) Name and type (magazine, newsletter, website, e-newsletter) of your publication.
3) How many times a year your publications goes out (weekly, monthly. quarterly... etc.).
4) Readership or unique visitors (website) of your publication.
5) Where in the world your publication is distributed.
6) Contact name and email address that you would like the Life in the Trap comics strips sent to. Your email address will never be given or sold to any third party.
Send your email to this address:
FREQUENTLY ASKED SYNDICATION QUESTIONS:
1) Do other editors recommend you?
2) Will other golf publications get the same comic strip you send me?
3) Do I get the comic strips before they are put on the website?
4) How can my readers follow your story lines?
5) How do you expect to make money off this?
6) How much does it cost?
7) What exactly do I get for my money?
8) How do I sign up?
Do other editors recommend you?
Recommendations!
“Your Life in the Trap cartoon – with exclusive Vegas related happenings – is a huge hit with our readers. The ingenuity and creativeness are amazing and the cartoons are laugh-out-loud funny.” Brian Hurlburt - Vegas Golfer Magazine - Readership Per Year: 1.68 million
“I've included Life in the Trap in each of this year's 12 issues and have found that Rick Newell's cartoon strip on the Game of Golf has generated much attention… everyone notices it, comments favorably on it, and smiles.” Bob Koczor - Golf Today Magazine - Readership Per Month: 350,000
“Rick Newell’s comic strip, Life In The Trap, has been a great addition to GolfWashington Magazine in 2005. Furthermore, Mr. Newell proved extremely reliable at meeting our monthly deadlines. I highly recommend Mr. Newell and his amusing comic strip to anyone in the publishing business.” Daniel Mitchell - GolfWashington Magazine - Readership Per Month: 120,000
“We are very pleased to carry your strip in our magazine. We feel it matches an attitude we have worked to achieve with our publication. We think the look is crisp and the humor, itself, is based on a solid understanding of what golfers think, hope, feel, believe, talk and complain about.” James Flynn – Pros N’ Hackers - Readership Per Month – 75,000
“Rick Newell's Life In The Trap has been featured in our monthly newsletter since Jan 2005. Rick's humor is fresh and witty. These are not just rehashed old golf jokes! We are proud to distribute Life In The Trap to 11,000 recipients a month. Thanks for the yucks Rick!” Dan Kilbank - Ottawa Golf - Readership Per Month: 11,000
“I am from China, an editor of GOLFER Magazine, which distributes all around China mainland and Hong Kong. The strips from Life in the Trap are published in our magazine monthly. The strips are very interesting. The strips are funny and true, as put by one of our readers.” Jessie Zhang - China Golfer Magazine - Readership Per Month: 200,000
Will other golf publications get the same comic strip you send me?
Each month there are two different comic strips that are regionally syndicated. Just like your daily funny papers, all publications get the same two strips each month. For these two syndicated strips you do not need to know the characters or the story lines.
Do I get the comic strips before they are put on the website?
The comic strips appear on the website at least one month after they are syndicated. If a strip appears in magazines, newsletters, and newspapers in January, they will not start to appear on the website until sometime in February or March.
How can my readers follow your story lines?
Man, you ask great questions! Each month there are up to eight strips produced. Two of these are strips that stand on their own. Meaning they are not a part of a story line and you do not need to know the characters. These are the strips that are syndicated each month.
How do you expect to make money off this?
Great question! Glad you asked. I realize golf publications do not have the budget to pay a cartoonist. So syndication will not be my revenue stream. However, I believe that if I can brand myself in the industry as 'golf humor' that there is some money to be made; advertising on the website, books, calendars, greeting cards... etc. Just think how much Tim Conway made off Dorf? Ha! I have just signed with a great literary agent and we are now working on getting the first book published. The possibilities are endless.
Monthly syndication of Life in the Trap is free. Exposure is more important to me than making money off syndication. I toyed around with charging for syndication, but it did not work to well. So Life in the Trap will always be a free monthly syndication for publications with a circulation under 500,000. Don't worry about me. I am selling greeting cards and coffee mugs in about 600 retail outlets across the country. A book and some calendars will follow.
What exactly do I get for my money?
Each comic comes in three different web friendly sizes for your website or e-newsletter. You also get two different sizes of high resolution images for your printed publications in both color and black and white.
Inventory:
1) Small (541 pixels wide) web friendly .gif file.
2) Medium (613 pixels wide) web friendly .gif file.
3) Large (674 pixels wide) web friendly .gif file.
4) 6" wide high resolution color image.
5) 6" wide high resolution black and white image.
6) 7" wide high resolution color image.
7) 7" wide high resolution black and white image.
8) 7.5" wide high resolution color image.
9) 7.5" wide high resolution black and white image.
10) 9" wide high resolution color image.
11) 9" wide high resolution black and white image.
12) *If you require a different size, just let me know.
Without even coming up with new material I already have enough ideas for the next 2-3 years. Over half of these ideas have already been drawn. These factors assure that the quality of Life in the Trap will remain high and publication deadlines will be met on time.
You just send me an email with the information below:
1) Name of your company.
2) Name and type (magazine, newsletter, website, e-newsletter) of your publication.
3) How many times a year your publications goes out (weekly, monthly. quarterly... etc.).
4) Readership or unique visitors (website) of your publication.
5) Where in the world your publication is distributed.
6) Contact name and email address that you would like the Life in the Trap comics strips sent to. Your email address will never be given or sold to any third party.
Send your email to this address: