Blog: August 2nd, 2007When Al Gore ran for the presidency, his opponents mocked his military service, because he had carried a journalist’s pen, not an AK-47, through the jungles of Vietnam. But the mounting death toll of journalists serving in Iraq should serve as a reminder that being a journalist in a war zone is a service every [...]
Blog: April 8th, 2008The Santa Rosa Press Democrat pulled Candorville a couple months ago to try out some other strips. Thanks to readers who wrote in and asked them to return Candorville to the comics page, it’s back as of yesterday. Papers rarely hear from readers when they do something the readers agree with, so you might want [...]
Blog: June 23rd, 2008Boston readers have written to let me know they’ve been missing Candorville the past few days. Apparently when the Herald replaced “Brenda Starr” with Keith Knight’s “The Knight Life,” people were outraged. So they decided to bring it back. In order to make room for it, something had to go, and that something was Candorville. [...]
Blog: September 24th, 2008Warm up for the upcoming elections by voting for Candorville in another reader poll! If you live in North Carolina or you read the Raleigh News & Observer, go to the News & Observer’s website and vote for them to KEEP CANDORVILLE.
If you don’t care about the other strips they’re mentioning, then only check the Candorville [...]
Blog: November 9th, 2008If 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 [...]
Blog: November 11th, 2008ATTENTION 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 [...]