My Cage Fails To Sustain Syndication

In a pair of interviews following announcing the news via I believe social networking tools, My Cage co-creator Ed Power talks about the details of his strip's failure to find enough syndication partners to make it viable for King Features to continue on with it. Power says that the feature suffered the modest drop a lot of comics saw during the worst days of the still-ongoing newspaper industry crisis, but that in the case of My Cage, this pushed them from the holding-steady-and-gaining-momentum ranks and into the now-on-life-support level (mid-forties to mid-teens). I think that particular development makes the story more than another strip failing to catch on -- the cost to many newspaper strips right now from everything going on in the economy generally and newspaper industry specifically seems to be either a small bump downward or an inability to take that next, logical client-generating step.

The last syndicated episode of My Cage runs October 31.
 
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