Go, Bookmark: Ali’s House Site



I'm not so good with publishing news. To be frank, it's hard for me to walk the line between promotion and news, and I frequently fail when it comes to finding a hook that makes a story interesting outside of "here it is and here it comes."

Finding hooks isn't a problem with King Features' impending launch of Ali's House from creators Marguerite Dabaie and Tom Hart. That hit me as worth noting for a few reasons. The first is that I was afraid with newspapers cutting staff and features all around the country, and with additional credit problems apparently due to hit some papers in 2008, that the syndicates might not launch anything for a while. That's right: it's so bad right now that a syndicate launching a feature is almost news in and of itself. The second is that Tom Hart is one of the under-appreciated creators from the second alt-comics wave that hit in the early to middle 1990s, so I'm always interested in what he's up to. The third is that I wanted to make a point over the next five years to check in on King Features, as I believe the syndicate's comics offerings are now all the way in the hands of Brendan Burford. The fourth is that if I didn't write about the strip now, I likely wouldn't hear about it again until it was six months into its launch.

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