Test Pattern : Comic strips

Meet MSNBC.com's new comic strips

Gael Fashingbauer Cooper — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:00:00 GMT

It was way back in January that we first started discussing updating MSNBC.com's comic-strip offerings. The much-beloved "Fox Trot" had moved to Sundays only, and "Boondocks" has been on hiatus for months, with no word as to when creator Aaron McGruder might bring the strip back....(read more)

Comic relief

Gael Fashingbauer Cooper — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:00:00 GMT

More than 100 of you have registered comments about which comic strip MSNBC.com should choose to replace the now Sunday-only "FoxTrot." You've spread your choices far and wide, but a few favorites have emerged....(read more)

Help us choose a new comic

Gael Fashingbauer Cooper — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:01:00 GMT

It's obvious from our discussion of "For Better or For Worse" that I'm not the only comic-strip fan reading MSNBC.com. Another favorite strip of mine, "Fox Trot," retired to Sunday-only strips on New Year's Eve, and that left a hole in the MSNBC.com comic-strip lineup. (For now, "Fox Trot" is still up there, but in repeats.)...(read more)

For Better, For Worse, For Hybrid

Gael Fashingbauer Cooper — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:44:00 GMT

I know I'm not the only fan of Lynn Johnston's "For Better or For Worse" comic strip out there. We've talked here before about how the cartoonist had discussed ending the strip or at least cutting back, and now she's finally announced how she's going to do it -- and to my knowledge, it's a way that hasn't been tried by a cartoonist before.

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