E&P: Brendan Burford Named Comics Editor by King Features Syndicate

King Features Associate Editor Brendan Burford has been named Comics Editor at King Features Syndicate, effective immediately. Burford had worked at King Features for seven years under Editor in Chief Jay Kennedy, who died last month in a swimming accident. Burford takes the Comics Editor title that Kennedy assumed before eventually becoming the massive syndicate's Editor in Chief. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, a cartoonist, and a former DC Comics employee, Burford is a longtime supporter of alternative comics who has exhibited at the Museum of Comics and Cartoon's Art comics festival with his a small-press anthology, Syncopated Comics. Burford has always been to my knowledge liked and respected by the strip cartoonists with whom he's worked, and in those circles has long been spoken of as Kennedy's likely one-day successor. As my super-crappy photo of Burford taken at last year's MoCCA Festival suggests, he is now one of the youngest executives in comics.

This makes me happy. I don't think King Features could have made a better choice, and Burford's selection shows in part how much the company valued Kennedy's way of approaching the comics syndication business.
 
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