NY Daily News Drops a Page of Comics

The New York Daily News dropped a page of its comics this year, as I reported last week. No announcement from the News regarding why it was done, and why certain strips were dropped and certain others remained. There seems to be very little information on the Web, aside from my blog entry of last week, so I thought I'd compare a 2006 issue of that paper with the Daily News of January 12, 2007.

NY Daily News Comics Pages - September 20, 2006

From top left, clockwise:

Front page,

Classifieds (2 strips): F-MINUS, TINA'S GROOVE

Horoscope (full page),

Comics Page 1 (7 strips): JUMBLE X-WORD, GASOLINE ALLEY, GET FUZZY, DILBERT, SOUP TO NUTZ, CURTIS, ZITS;

Comics Page 2 (4 panels and 7 strips): Panels: CLOSE TO HOME, THE FLYING MCCOYS, THE LOCKHORNS, MARMADUKE; Strips: GIRLS AND SPORTS, BLONDIE, JUMP START, SHERMAN'S LAGOON, POOCH CAFE, MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM, MUTTS

Comics Page 3 (7 strips): OVER THE HEDGE, HAGAR THE HORRIBLE, OUT OF THE GENE POOL, PEANUTS CLASSIC, ONE BIG HAPPY, AGNES, BEETLE BAILEY

Comics Page 4 (6 strips): ROSE IS ROSE, ANNIE, PEARLS BEFORE SWINE, FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, DOONESBURY, CATHY

And here's the NY Daily News for January 12, 2007:

From top left, clockwise:

Front page;

Horoscope (now 1/2 page, sharing with the weather, and facing the NOW section);

Comics Page 1 (6 strips): ROSE IS ROSE, GASOLINE ALLEY, GET FUZZY, DILBERT, PEARLS BEFORE SWINE, CURTIS, ZITS;

Comics Page 2 (4 panels and 7 strips): Panels: CLOSE TO HOME, THE FLYING MCCOYS, THE LOCKHORNS, MARMADUKE; Strips: SOUP TO NUTZ, BLONDIE, JUMP START, SHERMAN'S LAGOON, HAGAR THE HORRIBLE, MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM, MUTTS;

Comics Page 3 (7 strips): Panel: CLOSE TO HOME; Strips: OVER THE HEDGE, ANNIE, OUT OF THE GENE POOL, FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, ONE BIG HAPPY, DOONESBURY, BEETLE BAILEY;

Classifieds: no comics this day, but GIRLS AND SPORTS was relegated there last week.

One comics page is gone. 8 strips are not running in the Daily News as of 2007. They are:

AGNES

CATHY

F-MINUS

GIRLS AND SPORTS (?)

JUMBLE X-WORD

PEANUTS CLASSIC

POOCH CAFE

TINA'S GROOVE