Syndication is losing its all-encompassing grip on comic creation, and, I daresay, is a dying beast. Syndication, as a species, is nearing extinction. Well, to be truthful, and continue the metaphor, cartooning is evolving . Nevertheless, when a species evolves, the old species dies. The same reason most endangered species are wiped out - loss of habitat.
Syndication lives in the print newspaper.
Death of the Daily Newspaper OK, newspapers aren't going to go away completely. They're just going to be pretty much dead. In the same way jazz is dead, or the literary novel is dead. Highly revered, less and less frequently experienced first-hand. Those ads where some respected person tells you to read the paper to your kids every day, aren't around because newspapers are doing so well.