The Gannett 34 Comics Lineup – An Update: The Lockhorns Out, Sally Forth In
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All this talk about Gannett and Doonesbury and The Gannett 34 reminds me I never updated the list.
The original Gannett 34:
Group 1: Blondie, Zits, Beetle Bailey, Family Circus, Hagar the Horrible, Dennis the Menace
Group 2: Garfield, Peanuts, For Better or Worse, Baby Blues, Pickles, FoxTrot
Group 3: Pearls Before Swine, Jump Start, Ziggy, Marmaduke, Non Sequitur, Crabgrass
Group 4 Crankshaft, Luann, Baldo, Frank & Ernest, The Born Loser
Group 5: B.C., Wizard of Id, Close to Home, Argyle Sweater, Mother Goose, Rose is Rose
Group 6: Hi & Lois, Mutts, Curtis, Shoe, The Lockhorns
Groups 1 and 6 are comprised of King Features Syndicate comics.
(2 – 4 are Andrews McMeel Syndication, Group 5 is a mixture of Andrews McMeel and Creators.)
But on January 1st 2024 The Lockhorns switched distributors becoming an Andrews McMeel panel. It was then that King Features dropped The Lockhorns from Group 6 and replaced it with Sally Forth.
The Corpus Cristi Caller-Times is one of the few papers that run all of The Gannett 34 on Sundays.
Below on the left is the December 31, 2023 Group 6/page 6, on the left is the January 7, 2024 page.
Unable to find a December 30, 2023 and January 1, 2024 daily comics page comparison but here is the January 16, 2024 Indianapolis Star when they started running The Gannett 33 daily strips (No Foxtrot on dailies):
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