Rick O'Shay

Rick O'Shay
Author(s)Stan Lynde
Current status/scheduleEnded
Launch dateSunday: April 27, 1958
daily: May 19, 1958
End dateMarch 8, 1981
Syndicate(s)Chicago Tribune Syndicate
Genre(s)Western

Rick O'Shay is a Western comic strip created by Stan Lynde, which debuted as a Sunday strip on April 27, 1958. The daily comic strip began on May 19 of the same year. It was distributed worldwide through the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. The final Rick O'Shay comic strips written and drawn by Lynde were the daily for 7 May 1977 and the Sunday for July 17, 1977. He left the syndicate after a disagreement. As the syndicate owned the rights to the strip, the popular Rick O'Shay comic strip was continued by others: Marian Dern (writer) and Alfredo Alcala and Mel Keefer (artists). Publication ended on March 8, 1981.