Random Comics News Story Round-Up * I missed this Sean Kleefeld piece about dual-duty creators. I'm not sure it's possible to unearth a first because of the massively changing nature of the newspaper world in the early days of strip creation, but it's definitely worth noting what a dominant mode of arranging one's professional life this has been for a long, long time. For what it's worth, I once asked a syndicate editor why they asked so many editorial cartoonists to also do strips and for this person it was the ability to work with someone they knew would hit deadlines.
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