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Press Democrat Adding Two Strips

Published: October 20, 2025 1 minute 11 comments

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, in Sonoma County north of San Francisco and the hometown to the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, is asking readers for advice on adding two comic strips:

The Press Democrat is excited to announce that we will be moving to a new print press in early November. The change will allow us to increase the size of our pages, providing you with a better reading experience.

Because of the larger pages, we will have space for two more comic strips on our daily comics page.

The paper is giving comic fans the choice of six comic strips – Arctic Circle, Crabgrass, Cul de Sac, Dumplings, Macanudo, and Sherman’s Lagoon. Three from King Features and three from Andrews McMeel.

Is there a strip that you are missing and that isn’t in the poll? Please let us know at onlineideas@pressdemocrat.com.

The current makeup of the Press Democrat’s daily comics page consists of The Family Circus, Bizarro, Bliss, The Argyle Sweater, Peanuts*, Zits, Non Sequitur**, Pearls Before Swine*, Doonesbury, Baby Blues, For Better or For Worse, Baldo, Curtis, Rhymes with Orange, Luann, Mutts, Hägar the Horrible, Blondie, Pickles, Sally Forth, Rex Morgan, M.D., and Garfield.

The Press Democrat comics page for October 20, 2025

*Peanuts and Pearls Before Swine are by local cartoonists; **Don’t know why Non Sequitur didn’t load.

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Comments 11

  1. I don’t live there, and am not voting, but I would probably choose Macanudo and Crabgrass.

  2. They’re all great strips, add all of ’em!

  3. I am hoping people write-in Wallace The Brave.

    1. Agreed! “Wallace” should be in more papers!

  4. just saw that on my news feed a few minutes ago.

  5. As much as I love him, and his strip, there’s no way Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac should be considered for this. It’s not even a zombie comic strip. He’s been gone for years now, and the comics page should belong to living cartoonists.

    1. Living cartoonists like Charles Schulz?

      Rerun cartoonists like Pickles? For Better or For Worse? Get Fuzzy? Doonesbury? Legacy strips where the original cartoonist has been gone for years/decades and just funneling money to the estates?

      No one deserves exposure like Richard Thompson. He was a genius. Every time I read that strip I feel happier. No other comic strip has ever made me feel the way he did.

  6. Yes, where is Wallace the Brave, and — dare I suggest — Zippy the Pinhead, which is still great?

    I miss the Zippy Annual books. In this era of POD why do I have to read Zippy online, like some sort of hipster doofus?

  7. Wallace the great. I didn’t see an option to add Dumplings. You could get rid of Baldo, Mutts and Blondie.

  8. Wiley Miller used to be local — he even worked for the Press Democrat at one time!

  9. Cul de Sac is wonderful. But I would add Crabgrass

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