On Bear Alley Steve Holland ponders the likelihood that the DFC comic will cease publication very soon and also draws on the thoughts on the sad news from a number of the artistic contributors to the comic. (via Matt Badham.
In related news Sarah McIntyre blogs about the timing of her last Vern and Lettuce (which has been pretty popular around here) and the coincidental timing that meant she had arranged to take a break from the strip, which had been in the DFC from the start, to allow her to concentrate on some other work, so she had arranged to do a special big spread to end it on until they came back further down the line, except now that won’t happen (at least probably not in the DFC unless a buyer steps forward pretty sharpish):
“I’ve been going since Issue 1 with Vern and Lettuce and I’d been planning to take a break to do some concentrated work on picture books. But I had every intention to do more V&L strips, at least the next eleven I’d signed up to do (a year’s worth of strips in total). So I asked if I could make this one a big hurrah, letting V&L go out in a blaze of glory until reappearing in the anniversary issue, which now won’t appear. I’m glad their road trip story could draw to a close before the DFC ended, not cut-off mid-story, as has happened to several distraught contributors. (Although there may be a way that those stories will finish online, we’ll see.)“
Mon, Mar 9, 2009
Comics and cartoons