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ONE MORE DEATH BELL FOR NEWSPAPER COMICS

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 | Permalink

F*** this: Ernie Pook’s Comeek has been dropped from alternative papers all over the country — including the Austin Chronicle. I wondered last week where it went. Only good news is that now D + Q will post them online.

"How To Draw Cartoons" by Lynda Barry

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4 Responses to “ONE MORE DEATH BELL FOR NEWSPAPER COMICS”

  1. Grant Says:
    October 30th, 2007 at 5:21 pm

    there is no hope for our world now.

  2. Nick Says:
    October 31st, 2007 at 9:18 am

    Sucks to be sane. I’m really looking forward to the D&Q collection as all my rectangular Pook collections have been second hand of necessity, and it’ll be nice to buy them in a format that’ll send some money Lynda’s way.

  3. Adam Norwood Says:
    October 31st, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    One less reason to read the Chronicle each week… I’m still sore over them dropping The Straight Dope a few years back. At least Shannon Wheeler’s mini-comics and Sam Hurt’s “Eyebeam” have returned to their pages.

    For the record, I’ve been reading Lynda Barry’s panels for over a decade, but didn’t know that it was called “Ernie Pook’s Comeek”!

  4. Austin Kleon Says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 10:35 am

    for adam, from a TALK OF THE NATION appearance:

    Caller: Who is Ernie Pook?

    Ms. BARRY: You know what? Ernie Pook–my little brother used to name everything Ernie Pook when he was a kid, right? Right. You know, everything–it didn’t matter–a plant, a guppy.

    And so when I started my comic strip, I thought I would name it Ernie Pook just to sort of please him, to blow his mind. And when it was first printed–the first time it was printed, I handed it to him and I said, `Look.’ And he said, `Yeah. Who’s Ernie Pook?’ And he was too little. He doesn’t remember. So nobody knows.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/s.....Id=1150937

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