Through the years, the Journal has changed its comics pages, adding and removing as times and tastes change, and finding homes for new cartoonists to exist beside old favorites.
A minor change will happen early next year. Fox Trot, the popular strip by Bill Amend, is becoming Sunday only. Here’s the announcement. It’s grueling work being a cartoonist. Even the best of them struggle with the constancy of having to draw a new strip every day. And there have been some high-profile burnouts, such as Aaron McGruder and Boondocks.
Fox Trot isn’t the best-drawn strip in the paper by any means, but it’s clever and funny and insightful. I particularly like the antics of beleaguered Dad, Roger, and the uber-nerdiness of Jason and his friend, Marcus. We’re examining a lot of options for a replacement, keeping in mind comments many of you provided us during our last comics survey.
As a postscript, if you think the comics only make news in Winston-Salem, here’s an interesting story from Texas.
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