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Phoebe and Her Unicorn Ending?!!

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The Albuquerque Journal is asking readers to choose a replacement for Phoebe and Her Unicorn on their comic strip page with this announcement:

The cartoonist behind Phoebe and Her Unicorn is retiring [emphasis added]. The Journal has four options to replace this strip, and we want your input. These are the ones that are available to the Journal…

The end of March will be ten years since Phoebe and Her Unicorn began national newspaper syndication on March 30, 2015.

Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson March 30, 2015
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Comments 4

  1. So this strip is ending this month? Phoebe and Her Unicorn would be the 3rd. US newspaper strip to end in 2025 joining Candorville and Scary Gary.

    Here are my guesses for the next 2 strips to end in 2025: Gasoline Alley and Arlo & Janis.

    1. Arlo & Janis might end this year. They are soon-to-be grandparents and that could be one step closer to the end. It is probably the more likely one to end, somehow. The Katzenjammer Kids ran 108 years. Gasoline Alley is currently at 106. Walt Wallet will be the oldest person alive for about three more years, of you get what I’m saying. Either way, having two mid-sized comic strips and an obscure one on the way out before the end of March isn’t very encouraging.

  2. The Phoebe and Her Unicorn books are best-sellers in the kids’ comics/graphic novels category, and the core of Dana’s fanbase knows her from reading those at their school libraries or picking them up at Scholastic Book Fairs. Phoebe and Her Unicorn may be leaving newspapers, but I expect we’ll still be seeing new books at least two or three times a year. Wishing Dana the best with whatever’s coming up next.

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