Thursday, May 13, 2010

Goodbye to the Oldest Orphan

Comic Riffs
- COMIC FAREWELL: 'Little Orphan Annie' to walk into the sunset
: "The sun will come out tomorrow -- but not for many more tomorrows for 'Little Orphan Annie.'

Daddy Warbucks's favorite little tyke may have used pluck to survive the past 85 years in daily newspapers, but now she's apparently outta luck. Come June 13, her clear-eyed vision of the world will end as her final newspaper client, the Chicago Tribune, sends her off into the sunset.

So reports the Chicago Tribune's Phil Rosenthal, who writes: '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.'"

8 comments:

Dan said...

Frankly, I won't much miss the little brat.

mybillcrider said...

I miss General Bullmoose.

lastromantic49 said...

Oh well. It's kinda strange. I haven't seen the strip in forever, but it was nice knowing it was still around out there somewhere, Annie was still doing her thing. Along with Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon, Dick Tracy, et al. (Ok, I don't want to know how long some of those have been gone. I quit getting Sunday papers a long time ago.) Anyway, Sayonara, Annie!

David Cranmer said...

Best of luck to 'ya kid.

Cap'n Bob said...

I thought she folded 30 or more years ago, after that horrible revival.

mybillcrider said...

I haven't seen the strip for nearly that long, Cap'n. Must not have been in many papers.

James Reasoner said...

I was never a fan of the strip, but I still find this news sort of sad anyway.

Brent McKee said...

I've been reading it online. It hasn't been bad over the past few years, although nothing in the current incarnation of the strip would upset its creator. Mark Evanier has a nice piece on his blog about why he doesn't like the strip, and included a storyabout how he nearly became its writer.