It’s been a long road for many cartoonists the past two and a half months since submissions opened for the Amazon Comic Strip Superstar Contest.  But today, Andrews McMeel Publishing and Amazon.com announced the winning comic strip, Girl, by Dana Simpson.  We send a big ZING out to Dana!

Girl gets a book publishing deal, a spot on gocomics.com, and a development contract with Universal Press Syndicate for a possible future in the newspapers.  From what I’ve seen of the examples, I think she’s got a great chance to take the strip far!

Not that success couldn’t be found on newsprint but I don’t think syndication is really where cartoonists want to head these days.  See our previous post about the launch of the Comic Strip Superstar contest.