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
Thanks for this, Mike. I hadn't read anything formal either, and I am a HUGE Agnes fan and wondered where it went (I often laugh at Peanuts Classics too.) This feels insane to me, Agnes is the most intelligent cartoon they had. Anyway, thanks for the comparison.
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