So when I saw the Press of A.C. headline I opened it with little expectation, but I finally got a story!
A new lineup of comics and puzzles debuts this weekend in The Press of Atlantic City — and we’re excited to have you take a look.
You’ll notice our refresh includes bringing back beloved comics, adding features that might be brand new to you, and replacing others that were previously in our pages. Our new print portfolio is loaded with favorite classics “Blondie,” “Beetle Bailey” and others, as well as a new Sheffer Crossword, King Classic Sudoku and more.
We’ve also enhanced the comics and games on our website by adding two platforms that promise to grab — and keep — your attention.
Comics Kingdom, which includes 145 updated strips and timeless vintage comics, including “Dick Tracy,” “Popeye” and “Prince Valiant.”
Subscribers also can unlock our robust E-edition, a digital replica of the newspaper available on mobile devices and computers, at www.pressofac.com/eedition. Our E-edition allows readers to print out puzzles to complete and will have a new slate of extra comics as well, including “Candorville,” “Mary Worth” and other titles.
Will the new page be only King comics? Will it still be limited to 10 comics? Will the entire Lee Enterprises switch?
The details of the new comics page are sparse but the only comics mentioned are King Features Syndicate (KFS) comics leading me to believe (with nothing to confirm it) that Lee and AMS has ended their agreement and Lee and KFS has a new one in place.
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Whoa! That’s a big change! 70-odd newspapers? Will be watching for updates.
The Kenosha news arrived today with the front page trumpeting the changes and the new comics in place. It is still only 10 and the comics are: Zits, Beetle Bailey, Hagar, Snuffy Smith, Hi and Lois, Sally Forth, Macanudo, Break of Day and Family Circus.
The entire king lineup is supposedly in the digital edition.
Puzzles are Sudoku, Wuzzles, and tribune crossword.
The rumor is true! Break of Day has been in print syndication since the beginning of this year, but starting today, it will be in 70+ additional papers.
My Buffalo News print subscription, a Lee Enterprises production, is for only the Sunday edition. I’ll be pacing my front porch all night until sunrise, waiting for this bigly change.
The new lineup of Sunday comics in Kenosha News is: Family Circus, Blondie, Zits, Beetle Bailey, Between Friends, Dennis The Menace, Mutts, Hagar. 2 pages only. Page 3 is a kids page with Kid News, The Magical Attic color fun, Magical Attic color and cut out paper doll, Find 5 differences, 2 mazes and a “how to draw a horse”. Page 4 is Wisconsin Memories local interest history.
If you want Peanuts or Garfield and you live in the Kenosha, Wisconsin area, you will have to get the Chicago Tribune (which carries Peanuts), the Chicago Sun-Times (which carries Garfield), or the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (which carries Peanuts and Garfield) depending if your local place where newspapers are sold carries them.
Whoa! That’s a big change! 70-odd newspapers? Will be watching for updates.
70 Lee papers will lose Peanuts and Garfield? And add Blondie and Beetle Bailey and Dennis the Menace and recycled Family Circus?
How often can Lee Enterprises jerk all their readers around before they get totally fed up and stop subscribing all together?
The Kenosha news arrived today with the front page trumpeting the changes and the new comics in place. It is still only 10 and the comics are: Zits, Beetle Bailey, Hagar, Snuffy Smith, Hi and Lois, Sally Forth, Macanudo, Break of Day and Family Circus.
The entire king lineup is supposedly in the digital edition.
Puzzles are Sudoku, Wuzzles, and tribune crossword.
Does the Kenosha News still carry the KFS distributed The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee done by a Kenosha born cartoonist?
Edison will now appear digitally only. Last time they did this they had to reinstate after 1 week out of the print edition. Watch this space 🙂
I wasn’t aware that Nate Fakes’ Break of Day was part of King’s print syndication.
The rumor is true! Break of Day has been in print syndication since the beginning of this year, but starting today, it will be in 70+ additional papers.
My Buffalo News print subscription, a Lee Enterprises production, is for only the Sunday edition. I’ll be pacing my front porch all night until sunrise, waiting for this bigly change.
I wish Lee agreed and made the Andrews-McMeel and King Features lineup all one comics page.
I wonder if Lee Enterprises can be sued for false advertising because they’re not at all enterprising.
The new lineup of Sunday comics in Kenosha News is: Family Circus, Blondie, Zits, Beetle Bailey, Between Friends, Dennis The Menace, Mutts, Hagar. 2 pages only. Page 3 is a kids page with Kid News, The Magical Attic color fun, Magical Attic color and cut out paper doll, Find 5 differences, 2 mazes and a “how to draw a horse”. Page 4 is Wisconsin Memories local interest history.
If you want Peanuts or Garfield and you live in the Kenosha, Wisconsin area, you will have to get the Chicago Tribune (which carries Peanuts), the Chicago Sun-Times (which carries Garfield), or the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (which carries Peanuts and Garfield) depending if your local place where newspapers are sold carries them.