What a New Year’s present. Today the Chicago Tribune cancelled Candorville, as well as Prickly City. This was in my inbox this morning:
Dear Mr. Bell: My New Year’s present from the Chicago Tribune was dropping your strip. Every morning it has been my pleasure to read Candorville. I am angry (pissed is better). My next e-mail goes to the Trib editor who made this stupid decision. I’m hoping enough of us make a fuss to get you back.W.H.P.Skokie, Illinois
Another reader wrote:
Dude,I’ve really liked your strip since it appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Liked pretty much everything about it, even the references to Josh Reads.com! I can’t believe the Trib dropped your strip–is there anything that the readers can actually do to get it back in?Fred N.
I don’t know if there’s anything readers can do, but when you approve or disapprove of something in your favorite paper, writing a letter to the editor is a good idea. It’s the only way newspapers know what their readers feel about their content. You can try writing to the Tribune and letting them know how you feel. Papers do sometimes listen to their readers.Happy New Year!
