Goodbye Little Orphan Annie

[Gidney N Cloyd]

(Half the strips in the Trib are 'classic reruns' these days. I can't believe they were still churning out Annie)


http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-ap-us-goodbyeannie,0,2188222.story

Talk about a hard-knocks life: She has been jailed in North Korea, kidnapped repeatedly, accused of murder, trapped in a cave, roughed up by gangsters. And she's just a kid -- more precisely, a red-haired girl named Annie.

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Facing a shifting media landscape -- the closing or shrinking of newspapers, a dwindling audience for comic adventures and an explosion of new forms of entertainment -- Tribune Media Services has determined there will be no more newspaper tomorrows for Annie. After Sunday's strip, Annie, her father figure and frequent rescuer, Daddy Warbucks, and her beloved pooch, Sandy, will disappear from the funny pages. They will have a future, but for now, where that will be is unknown.

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From its opposition to the New Deal in the '30s to its hard-line in the war on terror, the comic strip has never shied away from its beliefs. "I always like to think of Annie as the Fox News Channel of the funny papers," says Jay Maeder, Annie's most recent writer. "It was a very political strip."

[Chan790]

1. Good riddance to bad propaganda...

now if someone would make a Sunday dinner out of Mallard Fillmore.

[rug]

2. I didn't mind her politics as much as I did her pupilless eyes.

[Burma Jones]

4. If the eyes are the window to the soul........

Very Right Wing......

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Bad case of Ovaltine poisoning.

[UTUSN]

3. How did they turn "the Faux of comix" into the musical tribute to FDR? n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. I know! I loved the movie when I was a kid.

[Brickbat]

5. Goodbye, you right-wing, union-hating, New-Deal-trashing garbage.