Go, Read: Candor in Candorville

Editor & Publisher picks up on that rarest of issues in the comic strip world: a cartoonist talking honestly and in forthright fashion about a client list setback. In Darrin Bell of Candorville's case, it's being dropped by two huge (and co-owned) newspapers, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. Big papers are a big deal for syndicated cartoonists not just because of the symbolism, but because papers pay for strips according to their size. In addition, without limiting the strip's possibilities I would think Candorville might be conceived as playing towards a big-city audience as opposed to something likely to pick up a Goshen, Indiana, and therefore losing both Los Angeles and Chicago might be extra-worrisome. For his part, Bell is not dissuaded, and with a nice 50+ client list in the strip's early days, and the attention of opinion-makers interested in his success, there's no reason he should be.
 
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