Whats the story with Doctor Fun and United Media?
Doctor Fun was licensed to United Media for slightly less than a year starting in May, 1995. I still haven’t figured out what the deal was with United Media. The kindest thing I can say about the experience was that United Media decided to jump into the Internet without really knowing what they wanted to do, wanted some cool Internet stuff, and I was handy. Once they found that they could do quite well with the cartoons they already syndicated to newspapers, my association with them was pretty pointless, since they didn’t plan to take Doctor Fun into print, and the couple thousand readers I brought in really didn’t stack up to much compared to how many people read even their most obscure features in the papers. I am speculating, I never got a straight answer from anybody United Media about why they acted the way they did, and sometimes got answers from the same person in the same conversation that were completely contradictory. United Media never did anything with Doctor Fun. A year we
