La Cucaracha Spared LA Times Axe

Reader complaints about La Cucaracha being among four strips dropped by the LA Times in a reconfigured comics section drove the newspaper to reinstate the strip yesterday. Heathcliff will take its place on death row. It may also be worth noting that none of the original four strip selected was a legacy strip, meaning that the Times actually ended up with a newspaper comics strip sections that's more conservative and creaky than the one they used to have.

As has been noted at this site a number of times, the culture of the newspaper right now is one of nervousness and perceived decline, which combined with the fact that strip movement has become relatively fluid in the last few years and that moderate rather than juggernaut hits define the moment makes wholesale changes in how comics pages are configured much more in play than ever before.
 
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