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Jan Eliot portrays the shrinking comics

Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot graphically portrays just small the comics have shrunk in size in American newspapers.

To sum it up, howbehold the size of comic strips since the beginning of my cartoon career:

H/t: John Glynn

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#1 Vince LoGreco
June/3/2009
@ 11:16 am

In Philadelphia you need a magnifying glass to read any comic with words and they claim that they are bigger.

#2 Jeff Mahon
June/8/2009
@ 9:23 am

Same in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.

I am equally disappointed by the smaller size of the Sunday format. It’s nothing more than a glorified daily, with an extra panel and coloring.

Never thought I would be looking back at the 90’s in retrospect.

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