What happened to Mallard Fillmore comics?

The strip was later picked up for national syndication by King Features Syndicate, which began distributing it in May 1994. After November 23, 2019, Mallard Fillmore stopped updating with new content and instead reprinted old comics.

Is Mallard Fillmore Cancelled?

It didn’t take long for the decision by Gannett Co. to drop the conservative comic strip “Mallard Fillmore” from its newspapers to be decried by conservative websites as just one more example of “cancel culture.” “Conservative ‘Mallard Fillmore’ cartoon canceled by leftists,” said the Independent Sentinel.

How many newspapers Mallard Fillmore?

Mallard Fillmore first hatched from the pen of Bruce Tinsley at The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Va. Today, the celebrated comic strip about Tinsley’s conservative reporter-duck fills the bill in nearly 400 newspapers nationwide.

Is Doonesbury liberal or conservative?

Created in “the throes of ’60s and ’70s counterculture”, and frequently political in nature, Doonesbury features characters representing a range of affiliations, but the cartoon is noted for a liberal viewpoint.

What happened to Bruce Tinsley?

Tinsley quietly stopped producing new strips in 2019. Since 2020, Mallard Fillmore comics are produced by Loren Fishman. In 2006, Tinsley was arrested twice for driving while intoxicated, once in August and again in December, both Class A misdemeanors.

What happened to Doonesbury?

Doonesbury’s syndicate, Universal Uclick, announced on May 29, 2013, that the comic strip would go on hiatus from June 10 to Labor Day of that year while Garry Trudeau worked on his streaming video comedy Alpha House, which was picked up by Amazon Studios.

Does USA Today have comics?

Like most national papers, USA Today does not carry comic strips.

Does the Wall Street Journal have a comics section?

Wall Street Journal cartoons and comics.

What is Garry Trudeau doing now?

Garretson Beekman Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American cartoonist, best known for creating the Doonesbury comic strip. Trudeau is also the creator and executive producer of the Amazon Studios political comedy series Alpha House. Garry Trudeau gives a lecture at Stanford in 2014.