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CHICAGO — No more looming deadlines for globe-trotting reporter Brenda Starr. The redheaded comic heroine, whose first appearance came in a June 1940 Chicago Tribune insert, is putting the notebook away for good next month. Tribune Media Services, which owns Brenda Starr, announced Thursday that it’s ending the strip’s newspaper syndication.
Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich and artist June Brigman said they’ve decided to end their work on the strip, which appears in about three dozen newspapers. The final episode of the cartoon, created by the late Dale Messick, will be published Jan. 2. The Associated Press
