# What newspapers does "Mandrake The Magician" still run in? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-does-mandrake-the-magician-still-run-in/486956 "2009-02-22T16:48:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-does-mandrake-the-magician-still-run-in/486956/1 "2009-02-22T16:48:42Z")
[In the wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandrake_the_Magician) it claims this is an ongoing strip. What papers carry it these days? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-does-mandrake-the-magician-still-run-in/486956/2 "2009-02-22T19:31:16Z")
It’s clearly ongoing – King Features is still syndicating it (the last strip online is from January, but that’s how all their strips are – they don’t put current strips online). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-does-mandrake-the-magician-still-run-in/486956/3 "2009-02-22T21:15:54Z")
Not Mandrake, but my hometown newspaper, the Plattsburgh Press-Republican, still carries the Phantom. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-does-mandrake-the-magician-still-run-in/486956/4 "2009-02-23T00:08:47Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > It’s clearly ongoing – King Features is still syndicating it (the last strip online is from January, but that’s how all their strips are – they don’t put current strips online). They do now- they have a really cool comic portal called [Comics Kingdom](http://www.comicskingdom.com/index.php/see-it-now). ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-does-mandrake-the-magician-still-run-in/486956/5 "2009-02-23T03:12:49Z")
[Wow… that is one roughly drawn strip.](http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mandrake20090220large.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-does-mandrake-the-magician-still-run-in/486956/6 "2009-02-23T06:27:54Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [Wow… that is one roughly drawn strip.](http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mandrake20090220large.gif) Yikes. Was that really drawn this year? It looks like it’s 60 years old. You can tell the artist is really hip to the wonders of newfangled technology though - he’s using badly placed, badly spaced, computer generated lettering instead of lettering by hand. And what font could be more perfect for a comic strip than Comic Sans? _gag_ Hey, maybe he’s reusing decades-old artwork and changing the plots by writing new captions. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-newspapers-does-mandrake-the-magician-still-run-in/486956/7 "2009-02-23T06:50:12Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > ## Yikes. Was that really drawn this year? It looks like it’s 60 years old. > > Hey, maybe he’s reusing decades-old artwork and changing the plots by writing new captions. That sounds insane, but I don’t see any other explanation. You’d have to work at it with Photoshop filters to make a modern comic panel look that bad. Has he acknowledged doing this?