Comic Artist, Cynical Of Newspaper Syndication, Creates His Own Gig

Tony Murphy is a syndicated comic strip artist, which already ranks him among an elite group. But as newspapers die, so too die the comic pages—either as papers drop their subscriptions to certain comics* or as they shrink the space available til each panel looks like an illegible scribble**, Murphy decided to try something else.

He’s launching a weekly newspaper called Coffee Talk, to be carried in coffee shops or cafes, that will feature only comics.

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