LA Times Alters Comics Section



Joining a long list of fellow travelers in altering the size and shape of its Sunday comics offering, the LA Times informed its readership via an open letter that they'd be switching their from eight comics pages to six. In the process, they'll be dropping the Tokyopop offering Undertown and Jan Eliot's Stone Soup (panel from which above), and, one assumes changing the way the remaining comics and features are displayed.

The interesting things about this are the Times' size and importance, its obvious role the last 18 to 36 months as a paper looking to cut costs, its aggressive attitude towards comics (I believe they dropped or considered dropping some '70s mainstays that other papers might not touch), and its role as a potential facilitating agent for Tribune Media comics. It's also probably a blow to each feature in terms of having a number of high-profile "flagship" papers, and my gut says it could be seen as a particularly bad sign for Undertown.

thanks, Alex Chun
 
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