Note: Pibgorn goes [bamf!] (but not for good)

[nebroadwe]

One thing I enjoy most mornings are the cartoons of Brooke McEldowney, 9 Chickweed Lane and Pibgorn. So I was disconcerted to discover this morning that United Media had removed the latter from its list of offerings. For a while the only information I could discover was a brief note in McEldowney's Wikipedia entry that said, "On April 18, 2007, Comics.com discontinued Pibgorn at the artist's request." Uh-oh. But light dawned in this post over on 9chickweedlane: Pibgorn will not be going the way of the dodo; McEldowney is currently searching for a new home for it, having parted ways with United Media on his own initiative. Phew. Now I'm just waiting for word on when the dead-tree edition of Pibgorn's "Midsummer Night's Dream" arc will hit the shelves ...