His Dark Media
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SherlockChronicles.orgThe Independent reports: Even Philip Pullman has lost his job. As the best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy he will probably get by, but it will nevertheless have come as a blow to be told his services are no longer required by DFC, the comic for which he wrote. For after launching with much fanfare only a year ago, DFC – the first new Beano-style comic in 25 years – has folded. Dreamed up by Pullman's friend, the Oxford-based publisher David Fickling, DFC was axed by Random House after if failed to draw its "target subscription level", although a spokesman declines to say what that was. "Sometimes the market can prove too hard," she says, "It needed time to grow but in a recession it couldn't be allowed the luxury of a slow-build."
According to The Bookseller, it might not be the end of the comic though: The DFC founder David Fickling said he was exploring different options for the comic's future. "It's a special creation that should come back and needs to come back in some way," he said.
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