Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blue Rice
This article is for the comic strip, not the book, so I would argue that  does not apply.  I agree that the case for  is not strong.  The difficulty regarding  here is that due to the age of the strip (1999-2002) there were few online services available and fewer that remain indexed today.  I would argue that the Daily Illini constitutes an independent reliable source based on the definitions documented in Wikipedia:Notability#General_notability_guideline.  There are at least tens of existing original issues archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine which therefore show coverage of the topic, as well as the fact that examples in 2001 and 2002 show it was the top feature in the comics section (https://web.archive.org/web/20010606171607/http://www.dailyillini.com/comics/ Example 1, https://web.archive.org/web/20001214092500/http://www.dailyillini.com/may_00/may05/comics/index.shtml Example 2, https://web.archive.org/web/20020204151003/http://www.dailyillini.com/comics/ Example 3).  Lastly, there is also a reference available for an award given to a feature article on the subject of Blue Rice and its author by the https://cspa.columbia.edu/recepient-lists/2003-awards-student-work-gold-circle-awards-collegiate-recipients Columbia Scholastic Press Association in 2003
— User:Overcast75, 18:07, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NBOOK||WP:GNG||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)