An e-mail from Chris Muir about his Day By Day strip:

When I first saw the blogosphere starting up, I knew this was the new Commons, where ideas are truly hashed out, politically and culturally. An arena of thought, an ideal give-and-take crucible for the political toon I had always wanted to do to counter MSM bias; where one can have a real conversation with readers, without the dour middlemen of cartoon syndicates or newspapers. This is why DBD is free, both in thought and to blogosphere readers, and always will be. The blogosphere is DBD’s future as well as its past – a past that has the MSM contacting DBD for syndication. Starting this June 29, DBD will be available to newspapers in online and print formats. I thought at first, in the old top-down style, to ask bloggers and readers to distribute a PR-style blurb I had written. Much better to ask you, on June 29, can you let your readers know, in your own words, the news above? That DBD can be on their newspapers now? DBD’s just one place in the blogosphere. But I know a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a gal…