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 to the current one 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], and Grace received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 1993 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 Daily Yomiuri along with Calvin and Hobbes.

Contents

Characters

Setting

The characters reside in or around Bayonne, New Jersey, which is where most of the storylines take place. Prominent scene locations include:

Style

The strip is drawn in detail and now appears in colour. The characters are shown around their city block, in their apartments, at church and in their club. Day to day items like cars, and other items which are drawn presented in as close to reality as possible.

While the strip is usually stand alone, on many occasions it is serialised 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 hand side panel.

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