Two Follow-Ups: Kudzu’s End, Shinders

* Daily Cartoonist has picked up on the Reed Brennan Media Associates announcement indicating the late Doug Marlette's Kudzu will end in August (dailies 08/04; Sundays 08/26). RBMA does the production work on dozens and dozens of syndicated comic strips. Sometimes a cartoonist or those working in their name will have worked way ahead; I remember Andy Capp being something like 18 months ahead at the time of Reg Smythe's passing.

* An item on the closing of Twin Cities newsstand mainstay turned retailer and collectibles dealer Shinders at the business news and analysis site ICv2.com adds little of substance to what we already know about the lurid, recent back story. But it does offer up a killer photo. If you're old enough to remember buying comics on the newsstands, and it's something I did visiting Chicago as a little kid in the 1970s, it's interesting to think how one's orientation towards the experience of publicly available comics has changed now that we no longer see them. It has for me, anyway.
 
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