Comments on: Funky Winkerbean, FBOFW, Mallard Fillmore Return to LA Daily News

By: The Daily Cartoonist | News and blog about comic strips, editorial cartoons, cartoons

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:12:20 +0000

[...] The L.A. Daily News decided it would be a great idea to drop 10 of its comic features. Most of them are returned. [...]

By: Mike Popp

Mike Popp — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:54:51 +0000

I just found out today that 5 other comics are returning to the Daily News on Monday. Besides Funky Winkerbean, For Better or For Worse, and Mallard Fillmore, the other ones returning are: Beetle Bailey, Garfield, Hagar the Horrible, Judge Parker, and One Big Happy. I, for one, am pleased with this decision.

By: Tommy Austin

Tommy Austin — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:29:36 +0000

Judge Parker, another oldie, but goodie, is likely to return. Dick Tracy, alas, is not as likely to return.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:41:44 +0000

Gotta applaud the attempt by the L.A. Daily News – someone up there had some cojones to attempt such a radical move. Hopefully the outcome will still benefit new creators and fans of newer comics. In hindsight it probably would have been a better business model to plan to remove the 10 one at a time over a year to reduce the backlash and ease older readers into the ultimate vision for their comics page. Let’s hope other publications see it this way instead of seeing the backlash and continuing to run the old stuff forever. Just my $.02 – me!

By: j stevens

j stevens — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:31:59 +0000

this is why new comics never get a chance while old ones remain that…old. we’ll see what happens, but this is a shame!

By: Mike Popp

Mike Popp — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:47:45 +0000

Are Beetle Bailey, Garfield, and Hagar coming back? Beetle Bailey was one of the four comics reinstated in the Press-Telegram (Long Beach) along with For Better or For Worse, Mark Trail and Dennis the Menace. The Press-Telegram had originally replaced these features with newer comics like the Daily News.