Piranha Club

Piranha Club

Title panel for Piranha Club Sunday strips.
Author(s) Bud Grace
Current status / schedule Running
Launch date February 1, 1988 (as Ernie)
Syndicate(s) King Features Syndicate
Genre(s) Humor

Piranha Club is the title of a comic strip written and illustrated by Bud Grace. It was originally called Ernie, but the title was changed in 1998. The club is meant as a parody on Lions Club International, and the strip made its debut in February 1988. In 1989, the Swedish Academy of Comic Art awarded Bud Grace with the Adamson Statuette.[1] Grace received the 1993 National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Comic Strip Award for his work on the strip.[2]

The strip is highly popular in the Scandinavian countries Norway and Sweden, where it is published in a bimonthly (previously monthly) comic book under the original title, Ernie.[3] It is also one of the most popular comic strips regularly published in newspapers in Estonia and Latvia (if not the most popular).[4] It is published in Scandinavia's largest and second largest newspapers by circulation, Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter. It is also syndicated to Japan's The Japan News along with Calvin and Hobbes.

Characters

Setting

The characters reside in or around Bayonne, New Jersey, which is where most of the storylines take place. The characters are shown around their city block, in their apartments, at church and in their club. Prominent scene locations include:

Style

The strip is drawn in detail and appears in color. While the strip is usually stand alone, on many occasions it is serialized with the story running for a week or more on some occasions. The daily strip usually runs to four panels. The Sunday strip is in a three-by-three panel format with the strip logo appearing in the top left panel.

Languages

Books

References

  1. McLeod, Susanna. "Bud Grace, Creator of the Piranha Club", October 4, 2002.
  2. "About Piranha Club". King Features Syndicate. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
  3. 1 2 "Comics: Meet the Artist". The Washington Post. May 31, 2002. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
  4. "Comics in Estonia: A Brief Account". Stripburger. Retrieved 2007-12-12.

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