Editing Little Orphan Annie (section)

===Cancellation===
On May 13, 2010, Tribune Media Services announced that the strip's final installment would appear on Sunday, June 13, 2010, ending after 86 years.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/ct-biz-0513-phil-annie-20100513,0,344970,full.column |title=''Annie'' left a homeless orphan in newspaper world |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |author=Rosenthal, Phil |date=May 13, 2010 |access-date=February 9, 2011}}</ref> At the time of the cancellation announcement, it was running in fewer than 20 newspapers, some of which, such as the New York ''Daily News'', had carried the strip for its entire life. The final cartoonist, [[Ted Slampyak]], said, "It's kind of painful. It's almost like mourning the loss of a friend."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/13/2010-05-13_little_orphan_gonnie_from_the_daily_news.html |title='Little Orphan Annie' comic canceled by Tribune Media Services |author=McShane, Larry |date=May 13, 2010 |work=Daily News |access-date=February 9, 2011}}</ref>

The last strip was the culmination of a story arc where Annie was kidnapped from her hotel by a wanted war criminal from eastern Europe who checked in under a phony name with a fake passport. Although Warbucks enlists the help of the FBI and Interpol to find her, by the end of the final strip he has begun to resign himself to the very strong possibility that Annie most likely will not be found alive. Unfortunately, Warbucks is unaware that Annie is still alive and has made her way to Guatemala with her captor, known simply as the "Butcher of the Balkans". Although Annie wants to be let go, the Butcher tells her that he neither will let her go nor kill her—for fear of being captured and because he will not kill a child despite his many political killings—and adds that she has a new life now with him. The final panel of the strip reads "And this is where we leave our Annie. For Now—".

Since the cancellation, rerun strips have been running on the GoComics site.