You may have experienced this in your neck of the woods, I know all of the sudden our local outlets are a little lighter. The Chicago Reader this week has addressed one particular medium in the dwindling newspaper industry that’s taken a huge hit, alternative weeklies.
While Matt Groening is set for the next several generations, thanks to The Simpsons, most creators of comic strips found in free weekly newspapers are finding less and less places to call home.
Readers, have you felt the hit in YOUR favorite local weekly?
Edit: The above comic is courtesy of Ben Claassen III. Thanks, Eden!
February 14th, 2009 at 11:17 am
How about a link back to Ben Claassen III‘s website if you’re going to hotlink to his comic? I bet he’d appreciate it. He’s a very funny cartoonist and deserves it.
February 14th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Apologies, Eden! No disrespect to Mr. Claassen, as a relative rookie to Blog@ here, I’ve yet to grasp all the hotlink features, and I actually got the imagery from the Reader article I was referencing. If you go to Claassen’s site, you’ll find there’s not much to work with at the moment (though I’m always a sucker for old school Lionel Richie). Thanks for reading!
February 14th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
“All of the sudden” (and in a comma splice, to boot!)??
February 15th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
To answer the initial question, we haven’t lost our weekly news magazine here in the 757 (Port Folio Weekly), but we did recently lose our weekdaily paper, Link, just before Christmas. Pearls Before Swine, The Meaning of Lila, Watch Your Head, Girls and Sports, and Pooch Cafe (in Spanish) were a daily diversion, and I miss them all.
Still, I do miss seeing This Modern World every week in Port Folio.