Shoe Makes Move From Tribune to King Features; Starting September 1



The long-running Shoe created by the late Jeff MacNelly and currently authored by widow Susie MacNelly, Gary Brookins and Chris Cassatt (the daily is signed in different places, once by MacNelly, and then again by Cassatt and Brookins together), will be distributed by King Features Syndicate beginning September 1. This comes as something of a surprise given that late last year MacNelly's company sued Tribune Media Services in order to make the move and as far as I know, no one had announced that case had been settled or won, although given the time frame I'd guess the former is more likely than the latter. Dave Astor's report linked to above notes the feature still has over 500 clients. The desire for the Shoe team to move their strip has some symbolic significance in that the strip's creator was a prominent Chicago Tribune cartoonist for years before his 2000 death.
 
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