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More GoComics Updates

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Yesterday we noted some recent updates to the GoComics site.

Today (it is dated “for the week of June 16”) we have a few more.

This week’s site improvements, product enhancements, and new functionality.


💬 Comment on Your My Comics Pages

You can now join the conversation directly from your My Comics page(s). Comment on your favorite comic strips without leaving your personalized feed.

🔁 “Rerun” Labels Now Displayed

Most comic strips that are in reruns will now display a “Rerun” label beneath the strip, helping you easily identify if a comic is new or repeating. We’re continuing to expand the label across all comics that are in reruns. 

🔎 Search Feature Added

We’ve introduced a simple search tool to help you find comics by name. It’s available on both desktop and mobile, with more enhancements planned for the future.

🖼️ Fixed Issues with Daily Comics Emails

We updated our daily comics emails to improve resolution issues and ensure that people who were having problems on older versions of Outlook can now load their comics.

The Elderberries
Family Tree

And there below the lower right corner of reprint comic strips is the “rerun” notice. Sometimes.

The rerun designation is applied very selectively at GoComics. First off none of the Creators syndicated strips (WeePals, Agnes, Dog Eat Doug, Scary Gary, others) get the label. Though they do slap the label on Tribune Content Agency’s Annie.

Secondly none of the old strips that are actively syndicated by Andrews McMeel (Calvin and Hobbes, Doonesbury, For Better or For Worse, Fred Basset, et. al) are marked rerun.

I haven’t figured out the rhyme or reason that some cartoonist-owned strips have the tag while other cartoonist-owned strips do not. Maybe it’s just early in the process.

As for the daily email fix – they stopped sending me the daily emails some time back, so I don’t know.

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  1. first, thank you so much for ” un moment vraiment plaisant (et instructif) de mes journées (outreatlantique) ” with things that make you smile … then think
    for the daily comic update with their “new and improved site” one must not only define one’s comic page (each page is limited to 99 comics) but also go in my account > manage communications > my comics email > tick each page … and then eventually, the page will magically appear in you email inbox (but sometime in the spam in a unpredictable way)
    another one of their most wonderful ” upgrade”

    encore merci pour tout et pour tout le reste

    anne

  2. Something interesting about the rerun notices is that, so far, they seem to only be for comic strips that are no longer in syndication (Bloom County, Cathy, Miss Peach). For Better or For Worse, Peanuts, Get Fuzzy, Momma, and the like don’t get the rerun notice. The only exception I have come across is on One Big Happy, which is on a very long delay.

    1. One Big Happy by Rick Detorie has been in rerun status for a while now.
      https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/01/28/rick-detorie-retires-one-big-happy/
      That strip has been an outlier for twenty years. After 15 years of creating the comic strip Detorie in 2004, after gaining more control over his property with a new contract (I assume), insisted that only paying customers (i.e.: newspapers and Creators Syndicate) would get same day access to OBH. And so Comics.com/GoComics was forced to run old strips. The strip is now all rerun but the edict remains.

      Note: Cathy is still syndicated as “Cathy Classics” which explains the lack of rerun notice. Momma is a Creators Syndicate strip, none of which are marked as rerun – One Big Happy being the exception.

      1. Miss Peach was a Creators strip. The year GoComics is pulling from(1992, based on today’s), and the last one, are marked Creators. It has a rerun stamp.

        Cathy, I’m guessing I’d forgotten there was an exception by the time I had reached the end of my rerun-cartoon jumping and came here.

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