Editing Flash Gordon (section)

==Later years==
The popularity of Raymond's ''Flash Gordon'' Sunday strip meant a daily strip was also introduced. This strip was drawn by [[Austin Briggs]] and ran from 1941 to 1944.<ref name="wr">{{cite book|first=Walt|last=Reed|title=Great American Illustrators|publisher=[[Abbeville Publishing Group]]|location=New York City|date=1979|isbn=0896590755|page=[https://archive.org/details/greatamericanill0000reed/page/24 24]|url=https://archive.org/details/greatamericanill0000reed/page/24}}</ref> After Raymond left ''Flash Gordon'' in 1944 to join the US Marines, the daily strip was cancelled and Briggs took over the Sunday strip.<ref name="wr" /> Although Raymond wanted to return to drawing ''Flash Gordon'' after the war's end, King Features did not want to remove Briggs from his position.<ref name="wr" /><ref name="rg">{{cite book|first=Ron|last=Goulart|author-link=Ron Goulart|title=The Funnies: 100 Years of American Comic Strips|publisher=Adams Publishing|location=Holbrook, Massachusetts|date=1995|isbn=1-55850-539-3|pages=174, 196}}</ref> To conciliate Raymond, King Features allowed him to create a new strip, ''[[Rip Kirby]]''.<ref name="rg" /> After Briggs left the Sunday strip in 1948, he was succeeded by former comic book artist [[Mac Raboy]], who drew the strip until his death in 1967.<ref name="df">[[Drew Friedman (cartoonist)|Drew Friedman]], ''Heroes Of The Comics:Portraits of the Pioneering Legends of the Comic Books''. Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Books, 2014. {{ISBN|9781606997314}} (pp. 40,82)</ref> In 1951, King Features created a new daily ''Flash Gordon'' strip. This strip was drawn by [[Dan Barry (cartoonist)|Dan Barry]].<ref name="rg" /> Barry was assisted during his tenure by [[Harvey Kurtzman]] and [[Harry Harrison (writer)|Harry Harrison]], who both wrote scripts for the strip.<ref name="rg" /><ref name="df" /> Barry also had several artists who aided him with ''Flash Gordon's'' illustrations, including [[Frank Frazetta]], [[Al Williamson]], [[Bob Fujitani]], [[Jack Davis (cartoonist)|Jack Davis]], [[Sy Barry]], [[Fred Kida]] and Emil Gershwin.<ref name="rg" /><ref name="aw">Mark Schultz, ''Al Williamson's Flash Gordon : a lifelong vision of the heroic.'' Santa Cruz, Flesk Publishing, 2009. {{ISBN|978-1-933865-12-6}} (pp.18,187)</ref> When Barry left the strip in 1990, various artists and writers worked on ''Flash Gordon''. The daily strip was ended in 1993.  The final artist to work on the ''Flash Gordon'' Sunday strip was Jim Keefe.<ref name="gh" /> Keefe was occasionally assisted on the strip by other artists, including Williamson, [[John Romita Sr.]] and [[Joe Kubert]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Bruce|last=Canwell|url=http://loac.idwpublishing.com/who-said-it-john-romita-sr-did/|title=Who Said It? John Romita Sr. Did|website=Library of American Comics Blog|date=October 11, 2015|access-date=December 15, 2018|archive-date=September 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926151913/http://loac.idwpublishing.com/who-said-it-john-romita-sr-did/|url-status=dead}}</ref> King Features ended the ''Flash Gordon'' newspaper strip in 2003, although re-runs of Keefe's strip still appear in a few US newspapers.<ref name="gh" />

On October 20, 2023, it was announced that King Features Syndicate would relaunch ''Flash Gordon'' on October 22 under cartoonist Dan Schkade and would be released daily, the Sunday strip being an overview of the week's strips.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cavna |first=Michael |date=2023-10-20 |title=Flash Gordon, American Icon, Returns to Comics after a 20-year Break |language=en-US |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/10/20/flash-gordon-comic-reboot/ |access-date=2023-10-21 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=2023-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020150501/https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/10/20/flash-gordon-comic-reboot/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Writer |first=Graeme McMillan Staff |date=2023-10-20 |title=Flash Gordon returns to newspapers this Sunday after 20 years |url=https://www.thepopverse.com/flash-gordon-returns-to-newspapers-this-sunday-after-20-years |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=Popverse |language=en |archive-date=2023-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027164422/https://www.thepopverse.com/flash-gordon-returns-to-newspapers-this-sunday-after-20-years |url-status=live }}</ref>