Cartoonist PROfiles In Trouble?

Mark Evanier reports that the long-running comics magazine Cartoonist PROfiles may be in danger of continuing much past its recent 145th issue due to health concerns of its driving force, Jud Hurd. CP's an interesting magazine because it focused on comic strips at a time when the field was undergoing a great deal of change driven by the slow decline of the newspaper field, a period when syndicates had a very rough time marketing their creators to general press publications, or even knew how to begin to do anything like that. In addition, other comics publications focused almost solely on comic books. It's sort of like for the last 35 years all the strip cartoonists lived in one town and CP was the town newspaper. Evanier mentions there's a possibility the magazine could change hands, or at least expresses that hope.
 
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