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for Friday, December 8, 2006
Our daily newspaper funny pages won't be nearly as funny after Saturday, December 31, 2006. Bill Amend is ending his "FoxTrot" daily strip to concentrate on other endeavors. Though he'll still be writing and drawing the "FoxTrot" Sunday strip, there will be a hole in our comics hearts the rest of the week. Anyway, in honor of all the laughs Amend's strip has given us, day in and day out, here's a "Comics In the Comics" sequence that ran in the newspapers from July 24-29 of this year.
"FoxTrot" has been running in all three of my newspapers: The Akron Beacon Journal, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and The Medina Gazette. When the ABJ had to replace the discontinued "Boondocks," it merely moved the exiled-to-the-classifieds "Mary Worth" back to the comics pages proper. This time around, both it and the Gazette will need replacement strips. My vote would be for Darrin Bell's edgy "Candorville" [www.comics.com/wash/candorville], but I suspect the editors will go for a safer strip.
The PD has a pair of comics-in-classifieds-exile: "Spider-Man" and "Judge Parker." My guess is that Spider-Man will return to the main comics pages, what with Spider-Man 3 having been partly filmed in Cleveland last summer. That "Judge Parker" is embarking on a political story sure to incense the PD's conservative editors also figures into my prediction.
I miss my daily dance with "FoxTrot," just as I've missed my morning visit to "The Boondocks." In salute to the Aaron McGruder strip, we close today's column with, from February 7, 2003, my all-time favorite "Boondocks":
Thanks for spending a part of your day with me. I'll be back on Monday with more stuff.
Tony Isabella
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