Due to a number of consolidations, nearly all newspaper syndicated comics can be found on one of two websites: Comics Kingdom and GoComics. GoComics is the online presence of the Andrews McMeel Universal syndicate. It posts the daily newspaper comics on the same page as all the syndicate's political cartoonists, as well as what are essentially webcomics never intended to be printed anywhere.
Someone a while ago apparently decided to troll them on this. Thus comedy writer John Scully created The Comic Strip That Has a Finale Every Day. Yes, you can check the archives. No you won't see anything different.
Despite the "every day" in the title Scully apparently stopped adding technically new strips last January. Either he got tired of the joke or GoComics finally put their foot down on what they were willing to pay for.
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I have to confess I really don't understand the concept or appeal of web comix. I do understand that the company that posts comics grabbed this too but did Scully ever work as a cartoonist at all? Is he really the Canadian journalist who'd written the books The John Scully I found is a Canadian journalist who's been lobbying to be allowed MAID because of his chronic depression.
Do you suppose GoComics actually paid money for The Comic Strip That Has a Finale Every Day? It does look as though he had some fun with it.
Have I gone down the wrong path?
Finally, have I been trolled?
*written the books Am I Dead Yet? Am I Sane Yet (cut out of original comment)
Most webcomics aren't really anything special because for all the vaunted freedom the medium offers most are interchangeable with a number of others in terms of art styles and writing. There are some exceptions. But the thing that's really clear is that while we've been hearing about webcomics taking over from the (truly and admittedly) sclerotic world of syndicated comics, it's never happened. Most, in fact, have petered out with no replacements.
It seems unlikely that the assisted suicide advocate in Canada is the same John Scully who wrote and drew this panel. He hasn't presented himself as a humorist or anything. I thought it was a writer for The Simpsons but it turns out that guy's name is Mike Scully. So what his background is I don't know.
Probably GoComics paid him money to start the comic. Whether they're gullible enough to keep paying it I don't know. And I think we all get trolled at various points.
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