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What the heck?
Comic strips being outsourced... I knew Doonesbury hasn't been drawn by Trudeau for quite a while; Shoe isn't done by the original guy any more; and now it turns out Rose Is Rose is now "Created by Pat Brady; By Don Wimmer"?!
Who the heck is Don Wimmer? Will this depressing outsourcing craze never end? Are these things just franchises or brands now, to be carried on regardless, even after the original creator decides to stop doing them for whatever reason?
Ugh. Just when I thought the world couldn't get any more soulless. I don't know why, but I'm just finding this oddly creepy.
Who the heck is Don Wimmer? Will this depressing outsourcing craze never end? Are these things just franchises or brands now, to be carried on regardless, even after the original creator decides to stop doing them for whatever reason?
Ugh. Just when I thought the world couldn't get any more soulless. I don't know why, but I'm just finding this oddly creepy.
from Doonesbury.com FAQs
(Anonymous) 2006-03-08 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)A: False. The strip is currently being produced the same way it has been for over 35 years. Trudeau writes the strip alone, and then does tight pencil drawings. The drawings are then either shipped or faxed to his assistant Don Carlton, who traces over Trudeau's finished drawings in ink. The rumor that Trudeau no longer draws the strip was started by Entertainment Weekly. When the magazine subsequently learned that the writer of the piece had wildly exaggerated Carlton's role, it printed a retraction and apology. By then, of course, the damage to Trudeau's reputation had been done, proving once again that a lie does indeed circle the globe before the truth can get its pants on. The irony of the episode was that after years of being blamed for the artwork in Doonesbury, Trudeau suddenly found himself unable to get credit for it.