McClatchy Standard Comics Pages Update
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It’s been three years since we first reported on McClatchy standardizing the comics pages in all their papers.
Since that time there have been changes, so let’s update what is now being run in McClatchy newspapers.
These are the exact same comics pages material currently running in The Modesto Bee, The Kansas City Star, and The Miami Herald on December 29 (dailies) and December 31 (Sundays) as seen via newspapers.com.
The standard current daily McClatchy lineup is
Off The Mark
The Argyle Sweater
Loose Parts
Garfield
Crabgrass
Mother Goose and Grimm
Sherman’s Lagoon
Luann
Pearls Before Swine
JumpStart
Baldo
Pooch Cafe
Peanuts
Baby Blues
Zits
Pickles
Crankshaft
Close to Home
Cornered
The Flying McCoys
Rubes
21 comic strips all from Andrews McMeel Syndication but one (Zits, King Features Syndicate)
The Sunday pages run all the daily comics plus
Doonesbury
Foxtrot
Big Nate
Mike Du Jour
Red and Rover
Deflocked
Wallace the Brave
Reality Check
Wumo
The additional nine Sunday comics are all from Andrews McMeel.
And then there are the comics featured in the McClatchy newspapers’ Sunday e-editions (no daily extras).
The E-edition comics are
Phoebe and Her Unicorn
Red and Rover
Pickles
Hagar the Horrible
Sally Forth
Rhymes With Orange
Peanuts
Candorville
Pooch Cafe
Lio
Diamond Lil
Slylock Fox
Luann
Prickly City
The Argyle Sweater
Archie
Big Nate
B.C.
Marmaduke
Curtis
Dustin
Mallard Fillmore
F Minus
Mutts
That’s an added 18 comics (not counting the half dozen duplicated from the print edition).
A mixture of Andrews McMeel, King Features, and even a couple from Creators Syndicate (B.C. and Archie).
Does anyone know if McClatchy pays more for the e-edition comics than if they just took the GoComics and Comics Kingdom digital platforms? I assume McClatchy pays less for these than for those they print in the hard copies.
And yes, I’m as puzzled as you as to why they duplicate comics in the print and e-edition.
Speaking of puzzled…
The e-edition also includes Baker Street Puzzle from Andrews McMeel via Knight Features. Neither page credits the writer or artist of the strip; could they be the same as the Baker Street comic strip?
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