Thursday The Washington Post revealed a major renovation to their daily comics page.
Comics DC reveals to the rest of the nation that starting Monday, September 23, 2024 the daily Washington Post comics will be in color. Decades after most major newspapers made the switch and 76 years after The St. Louis Post-Dispatch proclaimed itself the first to do so.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch from July 11, 1948:
On July 12, 1948 The Post-Dispatch began running their daily comics in color on their rotogravure press.
Above is the November 4, 1948 Post-Dispatch color comics page, four months after the paper began the procedure. Thanks to: Glenn Fleishmann’s forthcoming How Comics Were Made (excuse my bad cut).
Now in 2024 The Washington Post catches up.
Now the dailies will look as pretty as the Sundays, though you will still need a magnifying glass to read them.