Ed Stein To End Denver Square May 21




Ed Stein, the editorial cartoonist at Rocky Mountain News, has decided to end his Denver Square strip on May 21. The strip is one of the few of this era's remaining local-only newspaper strips. Local-only newspaper strips have been brought back into the media spotlight in recent months because of the passing of San Francisco cartoonist Phil Frank of the long-running San Francisco Chronicle strip Farley and the successful launch of Washington Post Sunday Magazine feature Cul De Sac as a daily. Denver Square was launched in 1997.

Local market comic strips have become a more compelling idea as the newspaper industry has changed in the last 10 years with an aging readership and massive competition on-line. On the one hand, they have potential to offer newspapers unique local content of a kind that can be highly appealing and play in both print and on-line formats. On the other, the economics of profitable strip-making have for decades depended on wide distribution through multiple outlets paying a small fee as opposed to one entity shouldering the entire cost.

Alan Gardner has a complete write-up with links to everything you'll want to see.
 
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