Comments on: LA Daily News Readers: Don’t Mess With The Comics

By: Josh McDonald

Josh McDonald — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:49:02 +0000

The web is certainly more convenient, and I too get most of my comics online. Though I prefer paper, when I can get it.

And I’ve heard, somewhere, that cartoonists don’t get paid (or maybe don’t get paid as much?) for web vs. newspaper publication … anyone know the specifics about that?

By: mike3031@peoplepc.com

mike3031@peoplepc.com — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:26:58 +0000

i read all my favorites on the web plus some new ones i have found there, also it saves me money and a trip to the store for anewspaper. why buy a paper when everything is on the web?

By: The Daily Cartoonist | News and blog about comic strips, editorial cartoons, cartoons

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:36:55 +0000

[...] As noted earlier the L.A. Daily News dropped 10 comic features but under overwhelming comic reader complaints the editor is reinstating several of the features. “For Better or For Worse,” “Funky Winkerbean” and “Mallard Fillmore” were at the top of your list and they will return to the daily LA.COM section within a matter of days. We also are bringing back the horoscope you like and some other comics and features that are very popular. [...]

By: Garey Mckee

Garey Mckee — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:10:59 +0000

Well Charles just think, if England had won the revolutionary war we’d all be speaking English right now. Hey, wait a minute…

By: Charles Brubaker

Charles Brubaker — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:29:55 +0000

I do read most of my strips on the web, but I have no choice. I live in Japan, and the English-language newspaper here runs very little comics (just Piranha Club, Bliss, and Calvin and Hobbes reruns).

I’m hoping that this will change when I (hopefully) move to US in 2008.

By: Tommy Austin

Tommy Austin — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:00:45 +0000

I heard that the LA Daily News is strongly looking at bringing back up to 6 of the comics they got rid of. It seems the paper also owns a bunch of dailies in and around Southern California. The idea was to consolidate comics pages down to a reasonable number (cost savings likely at the root of this) amongst all the dailies including the biggest, the LA Daily News. What the Daily News of Los Angeles didn’t know or chose to ignore was that there might be a backlash to the mass cancellations of strips like Funky Winkerbean (in the middle of a BIG story), For Better or Worse and even Judge Parker. Even Mallard Fillmore may get a reprieve along with a couple others. This is all rumor and rumble, but it looks good that up to 6 strips that were temporarily axed may find their way back into the LA Daily News.

What I cannot understand, is why doesn’t the LA Times take advantage of this (did the News really put in cancellations)? And why would the News keep strips that run in the Times (Marmaduke for one).

By: MJ

MJ — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:28:56 +0000

I read the strips online also. This way I can follow a storyline without having to worry about it being dropped by the editors of the printed pages at a crucial point.

By: Garey Mckee

Garey Mckee — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:32:16 +0000

To be perfectly honest I read most of the strips I like on the web rather than any newspaper. I’m curious how many people here do the same?

By: Jeff Stanson

Jeff Stanson — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:23:08 +0000

I’ve never complained about a good comic breaking in. I’ve only complained about replacing classic comics with poorly drawn and badly written comics featuring subject matter inappropriate to a family comics page, simply because the comic was “new” and not “old”. There’s only a relatively small amount of real estate available in newspapers for comic strips today, in light of so many more budding cartoonists, but the best stuff will always find its way in. If we open the floodgates by cancelling everything after it reaches a certain age, then we’ve lost the quality control “forced” on the comics page by its physical limitations. At least the Web brought a new medium for cartoonists to get exposure and experience. Would-be cartoonists should earn their space on a comics page, not just expect it of the newspapers.

By: j stevens

j stevens — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:39:57 +0000

how can other comic strips get a fair chance to be read when anytime a new one breaks in, older readers automatically complain about them? is this what happened to funky winkerbean and other relic strips when they broke in 30 years ago?