“In the old days, comics were often full pages,” he says. “Now, they’re squeezed down into tiny little boxes that don’t give much more room than what it takes to do a talking head. It’s sad to see something that was so important to cartooning becoming marginalized.”
The Times notes that The Oregonian announced plans to drop 10 strips, The Washington Post is dumping five and the Florida Times-Union, eight.
To fight back, some cartoonists are trying to generate revenue online to survive, the paper says, but many are skeptical they can make a living there.”
For any cartoon collectors out there, can you imagine if Little Nemo in Slumberland had been printed today?
The newspapers are doing all this to themselves. They still don’t realize it.
Besides, is anyone REALLY going to miss Apartment 3G?
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