One of the world’s best-known comic strip characters is ended her run in the funny pages yesterday.  June 13, 2010, was the date on the final panel of Little Orphan Annie comic strips, according to distributor Tribune Media Services.  The strip, which had been in papers continuously for nearly 86 years, first appearing in strips thanks to creator Harold Gray back on August 5, 1924.  The strip, which has seen better days, was subscribed to by only 20 or so newspapers at the end, forcing Tribune Media Services to discontinue the pages due to low earnings.  However, Annie’s not going anywhere; instead, she’s going everywhere.

“Annie, unlike many strips, has such wide, almost iconic presence in our culture,” Steve Tippie, Tribune’s vice president of licensing, said, “that it would serve the character and our business best if we focused on other channels more appropriate to the ‘kids’ nature of the property.”  That means DVDs, videos, comic books, story books, posters, and all the other stuff that have helped build Annie from a little orphan girl to someone who (if she were real) would be as rich as Daddy Warbucks himself (if he were also real).

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