New York Press All The Way Gone From Print

Manhattan Media has announced it's going to terminate the print iteration of the alt-weekly New York Press, merging it with a revived print publication with a completely different name intended to cover more community news. New York Press was founded in 1988 and since late 2002 has been through a number of ownership changes and directional shifts to the point that many would argue this is no way the same paper that was set to compete with the Village Voice in its first several years of existence and that its obituary is nearly a decade overdue. I'm not certain that this is even a trends story on its own -- for one thing, I have a hard time all-the-way buying the distinction made in the piece that there's some sort of quantifiable "alt-news" category that you can either embrace or shunt aside -- but this story gets mentioned here because of its link to comics. The publication was at one time a significant comics and also illustration client for a number of (I think mostly) New York-based or New York-connected cartoonists: Tony Millionaire, Gary Panter and Danny Hellman among them. There's probably something funny to be said about a newspaper losing or downplaying its connection to its cartoonists and then eventually falling out of favor, but there are too few outlets for comics work period for there to be any jokes at all.

a Robert Goodin illustration from a 2006 issue
 
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