Comments on: Comic landscape unchanged after FBOFW transition

By: Larry Levine

Larry Levine — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:51:40 +0000

The NY Daily News dropped FBOFW months ago during the inital hybrid experiment. The News also dropped Peanuts Classics.

By: Jeff Darcy

Jeff Darcy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:22:09 +0000

Our paper has dropped FB for the Pajama Diaries. It’ll be interesting to see what Pearls Before Swine might look like 50 or 60 years from now when it’s put into reruns and redrawn by a ghost cartoonist.

By: Dena Rosenberry

Dena Rosenberry — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:31:17 +0000

We dropped FBOFW from The Gazette in Colorado Springs, CO. So far, I’ve heard from about 20 readers, half are ticked and half are tickled.

By: Malc McGookin

Malc McGookin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:03:09 +0000

Lies, d@mned lies and statistics, as the saying goes.

It’s in the syndicate’s best interests to talk down the replacement issue, as newspapers are as cowardly as Greek ferry boat captains. One sniff that they’re backing the wrong horse and they’ll drop FBOFW like a hot tattie.

On the other Daily Cartoonist thread, which documents whether FBOFW is being replaced or not, I counted fourteen reports of replacements. The link below announces that the Detroit Free Press is also dropping it. Those are reports from people on a couple of sites alone. Those fifteen reported papers make up 1% of FBOFW’s US papers.
You would have to multiply that by an unknown factor (I would say x 10 at least) to get a truer picture, and the number of papers which decide not to run the “new” FBOFW can only grow.

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