Annie comic ends, but the redhead's fate uncertain The Associated Press

12.06.10

CHICAGO — Talk about a sedulous-knocks life: She has been jailed in North Korea, kidnapped repeatedly, accused of murder, trapped in a fall in, roughed up by gangsters. And she's just a kid — more precisely, a red-haired girl named Annie.

Over 86 years, the spunky (and forever boyish) orphan has endured hundreds of curly hair-raising adventures, not to mention homelessness, insufficiency and other Dickensian hardships. She's even survived the death of the man whose pen and imagination turned her into a comic-strip heroine.

Annie, the person, may be indomitable. But Annie, the comic strip, is not.

Facing a shifting media landscape — the closing or shrinking of newspapers, a dwindling audience for comic adventures and an outburst of new forms of entertainment — Tribune Media Services has determined there will be no more newspaper tomorrows for Annie.

After Sunday's skin, Annie, her father figure and frequent rescuer, Daddy Warbucks, and her beloved pooch, Sandy, will vanish from the funny pages. They will have a future, but for now, where that will be is unknown.

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