From The Toronto Star report: HALIFAX – A private equity fund is initiating insolvency proceedings against Atlantic newspaper owner SaltWire Network Inc., claiming it owes tens of millions of dollars after several years of mismanagement. In documents filed to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia on Monday, Fiera Private Debt Fund said SaltWire and The […]
In one of my answers in the comments section of The Great Gannett Comics Conspiracy I sarcastically said, “It’s like saying Gannett dropped Between Friends because they are misogynistic.” Further analysis suggests that may not be far from right. But first let’s turn to Breaking Cat News cartoonist Georgia Dunn from her Facebook page: The […]
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, […]
The time honored tradition of the newsboy delivering the daily newspaper is no more. Begun long ago with boys hawking sometimes ten different editions a day on city streets. The practice began to change when home delivery became common, along with fewer extras. Though well into the 20th Century youngsters continued to deliver newspapers to […]
So who came out ahead with the recent spat of newspaper groups standardizing their comics pages? Gannett/USA TODAY Network with around 200 newspapers, Lee Enterprises with more or less 70, McClatchy‘s 30 or so, PostMedia‘s three dozen dailies(?), and Wick Communications’ 10 papers comes to about 350 newspapers whose parent companies have determined what comic […]
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 […]
QUESTION: What happened to Leroy and Loretta in the Sunday comics? They were my favorites and I miss them. Thank you. A reader of The Longview News-Journal ask whatever happened to The Lockhorns and the answer is that when the panel left King Features the panel left The News-Journal (LNJ): ANSWER: We received several inquiries […]
Wick Communications, a media group with 24 newspapers mostly west of The Mississippi, will be consolidating their comics pages beginning in February 2024. The group has signed a deal with Andrews McMeel Syndicate. From The Fergus Falls Daily Journal: Beginning on Wednesday, Feb. 14, we will be introducing a new comics page that will still […]
Someone emailed me to complain about Thursday’s Barney & Clyde (Counterpoint), not particularly saying it should be forbidden so much as decrying the lack of taste and wondering how it got past the editors. I’ve linked to the specific piece, rather than to the comic’s overall page, in case you’d like to see the comments, […]
As part of the Gannett/USA TODAY Network The Providence Journal is implementing the corporate imperative to switch their comics page(s) to conform to some grouping of The Gannett 34. Like all Gannett editors Lynne Sullivan, regional executive editor of The Providence Journal and Newport Daily News, is “thrilled” about the forthcoming changes: For this reason, […]
Under the headline “Clarion Ledger refreshes comic lineup based on reader input, changing tastes” the Mississippi newspaper informed readers that their funnies will be changing as the paper finally conforms to Gannett’s company-wide overhaul of their comics pages. After reminiscing about the old days of meeting with syndicate salesmen to discuss comics changes to his […]
Michael Cavna and David Betancourt, Washington Post pop culture reporters with an expertise about comics, have accepted buyouts from the newspaper. From Mike Rhode: Michael Cavna just confirmed to me that both he and David Betancourt are taking the Post buyout offer, and there will be no specialists on comics on the staff now. David […]
Everyone was delighted about the original announcement this past September so Gannett newspapers are reminding people that the final group of The USA TODAY Network will soon implement the standardization of their comics pages. The Nashville Tennessean via The Coloradoan: Classic newspaper comic strip legends like Dennis the Menace, Blondie and Beetle Bailey are here […]
Hard copy newspapers are already behind the times versus digital news platforms so what’s another day or two? Lee Enterprises, which purchased the Buffalo News in 2020, announced in February it would be printing editions at the Plain Dealer’s facility in Cleveland and trucking the papers in for local delivery. The last locally printed edition […]
The USA TODAY Network/Gannett group has released a list of the selected 34 comic strips and panels that local editors and publishers will* choose from to run in their newspapers – not all will run in all (any?) of the papers. From The Fort Collins Coloradoan: Here’s a look at the comic strips readers will […]