Good buddy R Stevens announced on his site today that he's signed on with United Feature Syndicate; Diesel Sweeties should start showing up in your local paper around the start of next year. This is good news, it is about time that the old guard sat up and took notice of what is going on in the tubes of the internets.
Even better news is that Mr. Stevens has managed to hold on to a lot of the rights over his material, enabling him to continue to put the strips on his own website and keep things pretty much as they are now for the folks that prefer not to have to read their comics in the paper. The web is enabling artists to manage their own careers instead of having terms dictated to them; this is not a small thing and I think that the power shift we're seeing here is a herald of things to come.
Make sure you go and read the details. Rich deserves kudos and mazel tovs all around.