As if we needed further evidence how tough it is out there for new newspaper comic strips to get started, Spot the Frog creator Mark Heath announced on his Web site that he plans on ending the strip soon:
I’ll be bringing the strip to an end July 5 (dailies), June 29 (Sundays). This will be six month’s shy of the five year contract. The reason is the usual one: too few client papers, the need to earn money to replace my missing socks. I spoke with United Media and they were sympathetic to my odd sock fetish.
A shame. It was a really charming strip. I can’t say I’m too surprised though. Judging by the hate mail I’ve been getting about the new sample strips we’ve been running in my local paper, newspaper readers are loathe to change. (link: Tom Spurgeon)
