Syndicate DBR Media Shuts Down



The small, Florida-based syndicate DBR Media has shut down, according to articles at Mike Lynch Cartoons and Editor & Publisher. A mass e-mail was sent to contributors citing the company's financial difficulties and promising eventual payment as best as the company is able to manage.

DBR stood for Diane Eckert, Brad Elson and Richard Wilson. Eckert and Elson were former officers at King Features Weekly Service who grew dissatisfied with the company's position following the upheaval of 1999, where a great deal of work formerly done by the syndicate was outsourced and syndicate president Larry Olsen was forced out. The third initial was for Richard Wilson, a one-time fellow employee of Eckert and Elson who helped found and then ran KFWS from its debut in 1986 until his death in (I believe) 1998 at age 40.

DBR started out by offering a package of comics, editorial cartoons, text pieces, puzzles and games in what looked like direct competition to the KFWS package, including three creators who left KFWS to follow the people with whom they enjoyed working to DBR.

According to their web site, among the cartoonists represented by DBR were James Mojonnier, Ralph Hagen, Bill Murray. Mark Szorady, Colin Hayes, Guy Gilchrist, Rob Smith Jr., Ed Hall, Alex Howell, Will O'Toole, Wesley Alexander, Polly Keener, and Randy Glasbergen.

E&P notes the phones are already disconnected.
 
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