Damn, the old kid’s gone. And she’s taken the papers with her!
Last Sunday marked the end of the classic comic strip, Little Orphan Annie. That’s sad, but that sort of thing has been going on for a long time now and it was inevitable, despite some first-rate work on the feature by Jay Maeder, Jay Maeder and artists Andrew Pepoy, Alan Kupperberg and Ted Slampyak. Ignobly, the syndicate ended Annie in mid-story.
Newspaper comic strips were invented for one reason and one reason alone: to give the paper a competitive edge. If you were a New Yorker and you preferred Joe Palooka and Li’l Abner to Dick Tracy and Orphan Annie, chances were you bought the New York Daily Mirror instead of the New York Daily News.
The pompous New York Times turned not having comic strips into a virtue, but in fact at the...
Last Sunday marked the end of the classic comic strip, Little Orphan Annie. That’s sad, but that sort of thing has been going on for a long time now and it was inevitable, despite some first-rate work on the feature by Jay Maeder, Jay Maeder and artists Andrew Pepoy, Alan Kupperberg and Ted Slampyak. Ignobly, the syndicate ended Annie in mid-story.
Newspaper comic strips were invented for one reason and one reason alone: to give the paper a competitive edge. If you were a New Yorker and you preferred Joe Palooka and Li’l Abner to Dick Tracy and Orphan Annie, chances were you bought the New York Daily Mirror instead of the New York Daily News.
The pompous New York Times turned not having comic strips into a virtue, but in fact at the...
- 6/17/2010
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
After 86 years in publication, Tribune Media Services announced the cancellation of the "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip. On June 13, Sunday papers will showcase the last strip featuring America's favorite redheaded orphan.
Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie" was once published in hundreds of newspapers, but is now seen in fewer than twenty. The strip will end on a cliffhanger, with Daddy Warbucks wondering what happened to Annie during her latest encounter with the Butcher of the Balkans.
Steve Tippie, Tms's vice president of licensing, said that while Ted Slampyak and Jay Maeder, the artist and writer of "Little Orphan Annie," produced terrific story strips, there weren't enough resources to keep the comic syndicated.
Annie has had a hard knock life, surviving the Great Depression, World War II, and countless adventures. Despite the comic strip's cancellation, this is not the last we'll see of Annie and her canine companion, Sandy. Tippie...
Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie" was once published in hundreds of newspapers, but is now seen in fewer than twenty. The strip will end on a cliffhanger, with Daddy Warbucks wondering what happened to Annie during her latest encounter with the Butcher of the Balkans.
Steve Tippie, Tms's vice president of licensing, said that while Ted Slampyak and Jay Maeder, the artist and writer of "Little Orphan Annie," produced terrific story strips, there weren't enough resources to keep the comic syndicated.
Annie has had a hard knock life, surviving the Great Depression, World War II, and countless adventures. Despite the comic strip's cancellation, this is not the last we'll see of Annie and her canine companion, Sandy. Tippie...
- 6/12/2010
- by Kaylee Byram
- Comicmix.com
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