This just makes me feel old, as do all strip anniversaries, but it's worth noting Jef Mallet's strip -- perhaps best known for the surface resemblance of its art to Bill Watterson's -- is in 150 newspapers. This is a solid, comfortable number although not enough to make the feature a big hit unless the profile of papers carrying it skews to the gigantic. Still, that's more than enough clients for one to expect the feature to be around through a standard 10-year contract.
