LA Daily News Drops 10 Comic Strips

According to its in-house opinion log, the Los Angeles Daily News recently dropped ten strip features, including the venerable Funky Winkerbean in the midst of its attention-grabbing cancer storyline. I can't find any original announcement, but the feature linked to on reader complaints lists most of the features dropped.

Semi-radical shifts like this seem to be a part of the general, looser attitude towards the once-notoriously conservative strip publishing world that many newspapers seem to engage in these days. And by bringing in the word conservative, I'm indicating there seems to be a greater chance for strips and even groups of strips to be picked up and/or dropped right now than there used to be.

Speaking of Los Angeles media and the comics world, the great Tim Cavanaugh writes an editorial I can't keep on the screen long enough to read because a part of it burns my eyes. I'm sure it's good, though, and funny, like almost everything Tim writes.

thanks, Alex Chun
 
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