Go, Read: More On The End Of Edge City

There's a feature article up with the Philadelphia newspaper which carried Edge City, a 15-year strip made by regional residents Patty and Terry LaBan. It recently ended its run with King Features Syndicate; doesn't look like anyone else is picking it up or if that's even something the Labans explored.

One thing that newspaper strips have in common with their comic book and graphic novel cousins is that the dialogue about success and money and who is making what is who is really distorted. I write about that a bit at some point on Derf's very interesting take on the LaBan article.

I'm not sure anyone has a strong take on the future of comic-strip formatted comics, and I'm pretty sure no one has a take at all that encompasses print newspapers having a significant role in a way that comforts or excites fans of that very specific delivery system. That's an industry still in troubled times relative to their long and mostly stable history when they dominated personal and display advertising for 10,000 local communities. Right now my friends in newspapers have moved from complaining on-line material was too much like what newspapers used to provide to being something so different that it's changing the way people process information, threatening an extinction-type decline.
 
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