{"id":6380,"date":"2004-09-13T15:32:32","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T22:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/13\/two-in-one-blow.html"},"modified":"2004-09-13T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T22:32:32","slug":"two_in_one_blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/two_in_one_blow.html","title":{"rendered":"Two in one blow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blink.<\/p>\n

I read about 30-odd online comics each day, some syndicated, some not. (Memo to self: time to write a new “comic strips I read” post.) Sometimes one of them falls dark — but rarely two.<\/p>\n

\"dbd.png\"Chris Muir’s Day by Day<\/em><\/a> was unabashedly polemical, sort of an anti-Doonesbury, politically — sort of refreshing in a medium where, if political opinion is expressed, it’s 99% of the time on the Left (Mallard Filmore <\/em>being another, if nearly unreadable, exception). Muir is dropping the strip, though, for one of the worst reasons possible:<\/p>\n

To all my readers – Thank you all for reading DBD these last 2 years, and thank you for supporting the strip through your letters and emails. YOU, the readers, made the strip happen, and I will not forget. DBD did receive offers and was well on its way to distribution. However, several family members are now fighting severe cancers and what small time I had for DBD has ended for now.<\/p>\n

Yikes. DBD was never in my top ten list — it was too <\/em>relentlessly political, missing some of the personal notes that has made Doonesbury <\/em>just bearable over the years — but it had its humorous moments, and was, as noted, a refreshingly different perspective on the (virtual) comics page. I’m sorry to see it go, especially for the author’s reason. Muir leaves open the possibility of returning, and I do hope that happens.<\/p>\n

\"norm.png\"I’ve enjoyed Michael Jantze’s The Norm<\/em><\/a> for a few years now, since we met the man at the SDCC. I liked it enough to buy up all the back collections, as well as a piece of art for Margie. And now, he’s hanging up his hat — maybe. Evidently, straddling the online vs syndication world has been a bear (no matter how things may have sounded back in San Diego<\/a>), and he’s going to simply retire the strip unless he can make a go of it online-only.<\/p>\n

So, if you’ve an interest, you can become a Norm<\/em> subscriber<\/a>; if enough folks subscribe, he’ll continue the strip, otherwise, he’ll return the money. <\/p>\n

I hope he makes it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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