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Claremore Progress Comics Shuffle

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D. D. Degg Published: December 20, 2025 Updated: February 17, 2026 1 minute 1 comment

In Oklahoma The Claremore Progress is reorganizing. Much of its “syndicated, non-local content” will be moved to their website leaving more room for local news and affairs in the print edition.

The twice weekly print (daily online) newspaper informed their readers here (or here):

The Claremore Progress will shift more syndicated, non-local content to its digital site beginning Jan. 1, 2026.

Comics and puzzles will be repackaged to one page in each print edition, and an expanded section of color comics, along with games and puzzles, will be offered online at www.claremoreprogress.com.

The “repackaging” of print comics and puzzles sounds as if some of each will be cut.

But don’t worry, the paper’s website has your back:

“As more and more of our readers access content online, we are able to better serve individual preferences for comics and puzzles on the newspaper website because, unlike the print edition, space is unlimited enabling us to include more comics than we have ever been able to publish in the printed newspaper,” Claremore Progress Publisher Heather Kilpatrick said. 

The expanded online color comics on the digital site include Dennis the Menace, Dick Tracy, Broom-Hilda, Beetle Bailey Vintage, Shoe, The Phantom, Carpe Diem, Mary Worth, Gasoline Alley, Bottom Liners, Sam and Silo, Rosebuds, Dumplings, Mark Trail, Shylock Fox, Between Friends, Rex Morgan M.D., Zits and many more.

The comics listed are all King Features Syndicate and Tribune Content Agency offerings which seems to me as if they will be running the Comics Kingdom newspaper e-edition portal.

Inflation, international tariffs and rising costs have made it more expensive to produce printed newspapers over the past year. The price of newsprint, ink and production plates, specifically, have increased, resulting in smaller editions, and in some cases, fewer publication days at newspapers throughout the United States.

“With fewer pages in each edition, we are working to emphasize what readers want most from their local newspaper — local news,” said Regional Editor Kim Poindexter. “That means some syndicated content will still be available but can be found on the newspaper website.”

I haven’t been able to find the line-up of the current or the future Claremore Progress daily comics page, but below is the a Sunday color comics section from last year.