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...nine dailies broke the silence with editions that tried, in one way or another, to make up for lost days. The Daily News brought comic-strip buffs up to date on neglected episodes in the lives of Orphan Annie and Smilin' Jack, handed out free copies of undistributed Sunday-edition comic supplements. The Herald Tribune, which had to wait for the end of the strike to publish an inside story, published it: the resignation of Herald Tribune President and Editor Ogden R. Reid (TIME, Dec. 15), who had postponed his departure until the paper could record it. Lingering effects...
Since she burst into their comic-strip world in 1956, the Texas teen-age tomboy named Poteet has brought both joy and dismay to tall-in-the-cockpit Colonel Steve Canyon and Cartoonist Milton Caniff. Last week Caniff acknowledged that he took Poteet out of the strip (607 papers) in early October because of the problems she posed. For one thing, she was upstaging Steve with her giddy flair. For another, he feared she would become sullied by association with another youthful heroine of a different reputation : Lolita...
...expression changes so little that the spectator may find himself wondering which was witch. And Actor Stewart seems to be overwhelmed by Actress Novak's example. As the bewitched hero, he stumbles around most of the time with a vaguely blissful expression-rather like a comic-strip character who has just been socked by Popeye...
...Abner. A lusty copy of Al Capp's comic-strip characters, with some lilting Dogpatch music. In MONTREAL...
Buried beneath this comic-page tempest was a principle: Can an editor ethically edit a comic strip - which is. after all, the bylined personal product of its creator? Yes. said Editor Colburn: "We have a right to edit, we do edit, everything that goes into our newspaper. Comic-strip art ists have no immunity.'' No, said Artist Kelly. "Once my name and copyright are on the strips, I am responsible for what is said in them and how it is said. I'd be will ing to let 519 papers go to hell if they want...