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Blecky joins Fanta’s webcomics stable
Blecky Yuckerella
Johnny Ryan’s cheerfully scatalogical Blecky Yuckerella has joined Rocky and Chocolate Cheeks as the third free online comic strip over at publisher Fantagraphics’ website.
With all the news recently about the death of the indie comic book, I wonder if this marks the beginning of a decisive effort on Fanta’s part to offer more webcomics content. Will we see other artists joining the line-up? Stay tuned.
- February 9, 2009 @ 05:15 AM by Chris Mautner
One Comment
Mike Baehr
February 9, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Hey Chris, thanks for posting about Blecky’s debut on our website. I just want to state for the record that the strategy behind adding more webcomics content on our website is simply to offer more fun content on our website for its own sake (and the sake of increased web traffic, of course), and is in no way reflective of the current comics market, Diamond’s policy change, the future of our comics pamphlet publishing, etc., etc. We don’t want to start any rumors about Angry Youth Comix being canceled or anything like that. That said, we do hope to be adding more artists to the lineup!
-Mike Baehr, Fantagraphics web editor