NY Times: Focus on Christian Strips

In this week's New York Times Week in Review section, John Leland looks at Kevin Frank's Heaven's Love Thrift Shop, a new effort from King Features Syndicate by a Christian cartoonist which deals with issues of God and faith important to the cartoonist, and, one hopes, a sizeable number of readers. Also profiled are Guy Gilchrist, who does a strip called Your Angels Speak, previous attempts to deal with those subjects in the paper, including setbacks experienced by Mr. Frank and Mr. Gilchrist, and the general resistance the newspaper strip has had to such strips over the years.

The good news for all of these folks is that times have changed to the extent that the New York Times is doing an article on the launch of a comic strip, which as a writer for the defunct Christian-themed strip Jay Kennedy mentions seems astonishing. The potentially not-as-good news is that the launch figure for Frank's feature was 15 papers -- which is certainly a number that can be built on, even in these tough times for strip space, but isn't a number that conveys any advantage to Frank in finding a voice or much room to potentially lose clients if more readers in those markets complain than back the work.
 
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