Lee Enterprises announces partnership with Gary Vaynerchuk’s VeeFriends

Lee Enterprises (LEE) announced it has entered a partnership with VeeFriends, an entertainment company created by serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, to produce original comics that will publish weekly on weekends across Lee Enterprises’ publications. VeeFriends comics will appear both online and in print starting February 23. “Working with VeeFriends allows us to bring more positivity and inspiration to our audiences,” said Nathan Bekke, Lee’s senior vice president of operations and audience strategy. “VeeFriends’ proven creativity in cartooning will delight our engaged readers. This first-of-its-kind collaboration enables us to deliver premium content that entertains subscribers with one of the most popular and compelling storytelling formats in newspaper and digital publishing: comics.”