ONE MORE DEATH BELL FOR NEWSPAPER COMICS

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1. Grant says

   Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 5:21 pm

   there is no hope for our world now.

2. Nick says

   Wednesday, October 31, 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

   Wednesday, October 31, 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

   Thursday, November 1, 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/story/story.php?storyId=1150937