Syndicates
Writer Mary Schmich and artist June Brigman have decided to end their reign as Brenda's most recent creative team, and Tribune Media Services, which owns the syndicated comic strip, has chosen not to continue it with a new team.
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Available for free on iPhone and iPod Touch and coming soon on iPad, subscribers to DailyINK can use the app to access King Features? complete line-up of approximately 90 daily comic strips and editorial cartoons.
Millions of newspaper readers on five continents got a taste of the West in the 1960s and '70s through Montana artist Stan Lynde's western cartoon strip "Rick O'Shay."
Writer Mary Schmich and Artist June Brigman closing out 70-year-old classic.
Drew Sheneman, the award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Star-Ledger since 1998, has opted to take a buyout offer in the wake of possible staff layoffs and salary reductions.
On Monday, The Times instituted its second change this month to the Comics section. Because of a reorganization of the section, which included the addition of a second advertisement, two more strips have been removed: "Home and Away" and "Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!" Earlier this month, "Cathy" retired and "Rex Morgan, M.D." was cut to make room for the addition of the KenKen puzzle.
Structured as an operatic, rhyming poem, ?A Mall and the Right Visitor" tells the story of grumpy elementary schoolteacher Mrs. Olsen, who works as a department store Santa so she can save enough money for a trip to Las Vegas.
The Chicago Tribune has added to syndicated strips to its comics pages.
For the past several months, the Chicago Tribune has run a ?Comics Carousel? in its Sunday comics pages, a space where two potential strips run side-by-side with readers voting their preference. Now the paper says it is going to use it ?as a court of last appeal? for strips that the Trib is dropping. The first to face the music: Broom-Hilda.
Why does Charles Schulz's franchise born out of a boy's relationship with his dog continue to endure? "There's always going to be a market for innocence in this country," said Lee Mendelson, who produced the "Peanuts" films with Schulz for more than 40 years.
For the next three weeks, the Star Press will run Jan Eliot?s ?Stone Soup? today through Oct. 9; ?Thatababy? by Paul Trap, from Oct. 11-16, and ?Fred Basset? from Oct. 28-23. Readers will then have a chance to clip out a form that will run in the print edition and mail it in with their vote.
Some editors opted not to run Sunday?s ?Non Sequitur? comic strip, which included a ?Where?s Muhammad?? reference, according to The Washington Post?s ?Comic Riffs? blog.
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