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The tale of two emails that recently changed the course of my life.

May 18, 2024
New York, NY

Two years ago, I awoke to the email I’d been dreading for sixteen years.

It was from Dave Braithwaite, Head of Editorial Operations at Fairfax Media. He told me in no uncertain terms that it was the end of the road for the comic strip I’d been writing and drawing every day. This news was followed shortly by an identical email from News Ltd, sealing the fate of Ginger Meggs. The 102-year-old legacy strip I’d tried to keep alive (yes, even by attempting to turn it into a webcomic) had drawn its last breath as the bean counters turned the lights off for the thing keeping my lights on. (Or, at least my drawing lamp.)