NY Daily News Drops 1/4 of Strips?
From the oddly named "Murdoch Matthew" of Queens comes the following note that suggests the New York Daily News has used the new year to do something a little more drastic than trying to come up with a replace for Bill Amend's work:
You've had several stories about the comics pages shake-ups following the disappearance of the daily FoxTrot. I have missed a mention that the Daily News (New York City) seems to have dropped a whole page of daily comics. They've gone from four pages to three pages a day, losing five strips and a puzzle.
Comparing last week's sections with those in the 27 December paper, I think the missing strips are Cathy, Agnes, Peanuts Classics, Pooch Cafe, and Girls and Sports. The dropped puzzle strip is Jumble X-Word.
The Daily News runs two strips in their classified section, and uses them to fill in when one of the regular comics page strips takes a vacation. Currently the wild-card strips are Tina's Groove and F Minus.
I've long thought it likely that with the state of the newspaper market being what it is more severe changes like entire pages dropped were on the horizon, but I hadn't thought the horizon so close.
