If you live in or around Sacramento, or somehow read the Bee, be sure to let them know you want them to keep “Candorville.” They’re trying it out over the next four Sundays as a Sunday-only replacement for “Opus,” which ended last week. They’re asking readers to leave comments (saying whether they should permanently add Candorville) in this thread on their discussion forum. I’ve had a Terminator-themed strip ready to go for the past couple years, but didn’t want to run it unless it would appear in California’s capital. So help get Candorville into Governor Schwarzenegger’s paper so I can finally publish it!

ATTENTION SEATTLE READERS:

The Seattle Times is cancelling Candorville as of November 22. If you’re a Seattle Times reader and you want Candorville to stay in your paper, you’ve got to contact them NOW by writing to Timescomics@seattletimes.com. Tell them why you want it to stay, what Candorville means to you, and get all your Seattle-area friends, enemies, and exes (now I’m just being redundant) to do the same.

This is just Lemont’s luck: every ten steps forward, he runs into one giant leap back. Candorville’s added more than a dozen new papers in the last two months, but losing a voice in Seattle, the largest urban area in the Pacific Northwest, would be awful.

Sometimes papers cancel a strip to save money because they think readers won’t miss it. If nobody complains, it stays canceled. If enough people protest, they change their mind and return it. Other papers have canceled Candorville in the past, but almost every time, reader response has caused them to restore Candorville to the comics page.

If you want that to happen in Seattle, WRITE TO THEM NOW!

UPDATE #2:

The cancellation date has now been pushed back to January 4, 2009, not December 21, 2008. Keep writing! It’s much easier to get your local paper to change its mind BEFORE it’s removed the comic strip than after, so write NOW.

UPDATE:

Your e-mails and phone calls to the Seattle Times may be having an impact. They originally planned to cancel Candorville as of November 22, but now they’ve pushed that back to December 21 (which’ll be too bad, because I’ve written a Christmas sequence that I’m sure you’re going to like, especially if you’re a C-Dog fan). So keep it up, if you want to see Candorville stay in your paper, now’s your chance. They’re paying attention to you.

If you’re a Seattle Times reader and you want Candorville to stay in your paper, you’ve got to contact them NOW by writing to Timescomics@seattletimes.com. Tell them why you want it to stay, what Candorville means to you, and get all your Seattle-area friends, colleagues, etc. to do the same.

If you don’t WRITE TO THEM NOW, Seattle, you won’t get to see what happens to Roxanne early next year.