This is an installment of 2025 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: Dearly Departed) 2025 DEBUTS These comic strips began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2025.VEEFRIENDSby Gary Vaynerchuk (as Gary Vee) and D. J. CoffmanFebruary 23, […]
The Failure of G. B. Trudeau My childhood dream, like the popularity of print newspapers, inevitably faded. I had long been bewitched by the comics pages folded into each edition of the Times-Picayune, the newspaper with which I grew up in my suburb of New Orleans. The pages stood out because of the implicit respect […]
VeeFriends and LeePapers; Doonesbury Done in Dallas; Comics Come in for Candorville Cuts. VeeFriends Debut Newspaper Comic Strip If you were like me you would have thought that the images of the comic strip with the publicity surrounding the debut of VeeFriends in Lee newspapers was the actual February 23 comic strip. It wasn’t.With thanks […]
DAVENPORT, Iowa, Feb. 20, 2025 — Lee Enterprises Inc, (NASDAQ: Lee) a leading provider of local news, information and advertising across 72 markets in 25 states, today announced it has entered a partnership with VeeFriends, an entertainment company created by serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, to produce original comics that will publish weekly on weekends across […]