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“Several of the pages had seven comics crammed into them”

Seven Sunday comics on one page?! Why bother running them at all at this point?

I can confirm this change. I live near Newark and I read the Star-Ledger every day. I was dismayed to see that the newspaper shrunk its Sunday comics section from eight pages to six last Sunday. As far as I can tell no comic strips were actually dropped. However, some strips were so small that they were barely legible, “Prince Valiant” being the obvious example. Someone I know was telling me about how, because comics were being crammed in side by side on the same page, she actually thought they were one strip at first. I know that the purpose of this is to save money, but it’s really disgraceful and I’m expecting it to prompt complaints. Yep, it’s a sad situation.

Newspapers can easily increase the number of comic pages (reproduced larger & less per page) by simply cutting down the sports section.

Wily Miller said, “Seven Sunday comics on one page?! Why bother running them at all at this point?”

Apparently you’ve NEVER seen The Hartford Courant in Connecticut. Their sunday comics section has only 6 pages with a total of 28 comics. The cover (Page 1) of this section only has 3 comics on it, Classic Peanuts, Dilbert and Zits. Each of these 3 comics measure 6″(H) by 11″(L).

The rest of this section runs approx. 5 or 6 comics per page, some measure larger than others. Most of the comics run horizontal, and a few run vertical.

I could never understand why they would run each comic so large. I guess they’re trying to fill up as much space as they can with as few comics as possible.

As if that isn’t bad enough, they wrap the comics section in a 4 page advertisement. So if someone isn’t really looking for the comics section, they’ll just pass right by it and eventually throw it away without even seeing it.

What’s up with you guys? First you have the Sunday comics in one section, than you put them in 2 sections and today, 2/8/09, back to one section with 4 pages & only half the comics !!!!!!!!!

UNBELIEVABLE !! – Is there nothing sacred enough to leave alone ! – There’s so much stress these days – I like to start the day off with a chuckle, a laugh, perhaps some insight – THEN – go on to tackle this tough world – and YOU deem it Ok to just cut off comics – just willy nilly – PLEASE stop it – leave my cereal & comic reading ritual alone !! NO MORE CUTTING PLS !!

Pickles is one of my favorites. Please reconsider…it’s always “right on”

I can understand the economics of cutting the comics but you seem to always zero in on the very best. Frazz and Pickles are wonderfully funny and full of insight. Don’t even think of cutting Zits.

It’s a shame. A paper that used to be a nice lazy Sunday afternoon read takes less than an hour to finish now. Not much news, not much filler. And the news coverage for the rest of the week is just as slim. Too bad.

All of the comics that were dropped were read by me every day.Comics in the sports section (which I never read except Nancy Jaffe’s column)? And where was Vicki’s Dish? the Sunday travel has been reduced as was the gardening section. When it comes time for renewal (I have had the paper delivered daily for more than 27 years) I will also be downsizing!! Less readers will also mean less advertizements which are your money makers.

Please do not stop Zits. It is my favorite. There are some strips that I could do without..F minus, Rhymes with Orange, Get Fuzzy, and Mother Goose and Grimm.

Why did you decide to keep “f minus”?
It has never been funny or made any sense.
Dilbert is the same old,same old day after day.
The art work in ” close to home” is just plain insulting to the readers.
These you decide to publish and you drop a great strip like “pickles”.
Somebody needs their head examined.

C’mon, does anybody still read Dennis the Menace? Mutts was cute when you first intro’d it, but it’s just not funny anymore…..And you want me to give up Rose and Frazz for Over the Hedge and Mother Goose, no way. And finally, I can relate to Pickles since I’m 72 yrs old and it’s like reading my diary.

I remember when we would get the sunday newspaper and open the comic section on the living room floor, it was the best time….it’s a shame what happened to the comic section. I’m not talking about the strips themselves, the editor should make it more enjoyable to look at, in addition- I’d like to see more marketing and promotion of the comic section!! they forgot about it.

My grandkids and I enjoy Heatcliff very much.
Please bring him back.

Frankly, you can get rid of F-minus and even Wizard of Id is getting to be old hat. We need Rose is a Rose, Pickles and Heart of the City. I am seriously considering cancelling my subsacription. Like most people, I look forward to reading the “funnies” as we used to call them

I miss PICKLES. This comic makes my day!
Please bring this one back!

I miss PICKLES. This comic makes my day!

Please bring this one back.

<……(googling pickles)

Why remove “Pickles and Rose is a Rose”? Why not remove “F Minus”, Rhymes with Orange, Dilbert, Mother Goose and Grimm, or Over the Hedge”? It is difficult to find FUNNY in the “Funnies” anymore.

On Monday at that special part of the day when I get my chance at the paper fellow readers shared my feelings of bewilderment and annoyance! What now?! The comics not only cut, but in two seperate sections of the paper! Come on! It’s bad enough that the Sunday comics have been decimated to almost not existing at all. It’s just sad that any of them had to go and I realize that we will probably never see all the comics that are now out back in the paper. But what I do not understand is why the Cryptoquote is back in the middle of “the fold”, this will not do, at all.
I did check out nj.com/comics, and it’s okay, but ya can’t read the comics or work the puzzles in the same places online as ya can with the newspaper.

My worst realization after a 12 day absence was the scattering of the comics. I now have to find “classic comics” on some page I would not ordinarily read. What’s the problem? Are there other changes and deletions planned?

I agree with Eliz Clarke (7/27/09). With what you have done with the comic strip I to will probably be downsizing.Like many people who read a newspaper, I believe go to the comics after reading all the bad news to get a few laughs to start their day. You have really trashed your paper. I have already started the process of finding a replacement.

ML