Uhhhh... It was still running?
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Kelwyn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-05-13/business/ct-biz-0513-phil-annie-20100513_1_jay-maeder-strip-orphan-annie > > Through more than 85 years of hardships and challenges — spanning the Great > Depression, a world war, foreign cabals, corruption at home, several > kidnappings and, well, being an orphan — she somehow always found a way to > triumph. > > In the changing media landscape, however, Little Orphan Annie has run into > adversity not even she could overcome. The sun will come out tomorrow, but > the tomorrow after June 13 will be the first in generations to dawn without > "Annie" appearing in a daily newspaper. > > The final Sunday panel of the strip, once seen in hundreds of papers but > now run by fewer than 20, will end with Daddy Warbucks uncertain over what > happened to Annie in her latest run-in with the Butcher of the Balkans. And, > leaping lizards, what about her dog, Sandy? Arf. > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
