Newark Paper’s Comic Strip Quest

Did your parents ever freak out about bills and call you and your siblings into the dining room table where they took out their checkbooks and the bills folder and explained the family finances to everyone in slow, excruciating detail? That's sort of what's happening at the Newark Star-Ledger, who are taking the usually controversial period of evaluating the comic strips page and walking their readership through the process with feature articles to spotlight various issues along the way. Here's a nice, long piece about legacy strips.

While we're on the subject of comic strips, I'd like to reiterate The Official CR Fall Comic Strip Proposal to all strip-page editors out there. Pick the strip you hate the most, replace it with the Calvin and Hobbes re-run package, and then replace Calvin and Hobbes with Franklin Fibbs come January. Franklin Fibbs reminds me of Mutts in that it has a really unique rhythm to it that I think audiences will appreciate, but at the same time it's just offbeat enough that I don't think it will ever gain a mass audience without some nurturing along the way.
 
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