{"id":3380,"date":"2010-06-11T23:11:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T03:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2010-06-11T23:11:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T03:11:50","slug":"little-orphan-annie-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3380","title":{"rendered":"Little Orphan Annie in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Annie, Daddy Warbucks versus the evil labour union leaders.<\/p><\/div>If readers of this blog are up on Sunday morning and want to catch some comics talk, then you should tune into the CBS show called, appropriately enough, Sunday Morning<\/a>. They\u2019ll have a segment on Little Orphan Annie<\/em>. I was interviewed for the segment and the people doing the show really know what they\u2019re talking about, so it should be an interesting overview of Harold Gray\u2019s masterful comic strip.<\/p>\n

Because Tribune Media Services is canceling Annie, there have been a number of retrospective articles in the press. Sharon Cohen of AP has an interesting analysis which can be found here<\/a>, and Michael Taube, a former speech writer to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, weighs in here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As always, I’d encourage readers to take a look at the Complete Little Orphan Annie series<\/a> issuing forth<\/a> at a rapid<\/a> rate<\/a> from<\/a> IDW<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If readers of this blog are up on Sunday morning and want to catch some comics talk, then you should tune into the CBS show called, appropriately enough, Sunday Morning. They\u2019ll have a segment on Little Orphan Annie. I was interviewed for the segment and the people doing the show really know what they\u2019re talking about, so it should be an interesting overview of Harold Gray\u2019s masterful comic strip. Because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[544,639,808,1335],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-harold-gray","tag-j-heer","tag-little-orphan-annie","tag-tv"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}