The Big Nate Replacement Thread
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I remain astonished at the lack of notices from newspapers about the weekday Big Nate ending and what is replacing the daily comic strip in the 200 (give or take) papers.
We ran a couple notices from newspapers about what would be filling the space.
This past weekend it was noted that Wallace the Brave had replaced the discontinued Big Nate daily comic strip in The Washington Post. Mike Rhode at Comics DC provides the photographic evidence.
It was also mentioned that The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald has Red and Rover as a replacement. Here’s the notice to their readers.
The Mon Valley (PA) Independent also told readers of the change, but I can’t break the paywall.
And Mike T. reported that “the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram chose BALDO to replace it.”
Now I didn’t expect the ballyhoo that happened when Garry Trudeau stopped creating daily strips, but the dearth of stories about Big Nate no longer being a daily read is stunning.
Grant noted some changes via NewsBank and was kind enough to send us a worksheet he drew up.
The chart shows as Grant said that there is no real front runner in replacing Big Nate.
Rosebuds – possibly 4 (Georges Media Group*, Marietta Daily Journal e-edition)
Baldo – 3 (Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Idaho Falls Post-Register, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram)
Adam@Home – 2 (Denver Post**, Marin Independent Journal**)
Lio – 2 (Chico Enterprise-Record, Orville Mercury-Register)
Wallace the Brave – 2 (Charleston Post and Carrier, Washington Post)
Breaking Cat News – 1 (Courier of Montgomery County)
Over the Hedge – 1 (Seattle Times digital)
Red and Rover – 1 (Arlington Heights Daily Herald)
Ziggy – 1 (San Francisco Union Tribune)
no replacement – 1 (Springfield Republican)
reruns – 5 > see Grant’s comment (Tribune Publishing**)
promo for the Sunday Big Nate – ?? (Advance Publishing***)
addenda
* Georges Media Group consists of The Times-Picayune, The Advocate, and The Arcadian Advocate in print and the digital Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate.
** Tribune Publishing consists of some five dozen newspapers. The papers are not subject to a unified corporate comics page. The Denver and Marin County papers have chosen Adam@Home. At least one is running reruns, a temporary solution I would think as Lincoln Peirce is not allow reruns to be syndicated.
*** Advance Publications newspapers do run a unified comics page through their group of two dozen newspapers so when the corporate decision comes down the pike it will bea big pick up for the the chosen comic strip. Big Nate ran only daily in the Advance newspapers and not on Sunday, so that switch is a draw for Peirce. That means a Sunday strip will be dropped to make room for Big Nate – currently they print the rerun strips of Peanuts, Get Fuzzy, For Better or For Worse, Mutts, and the off-and-on Baby Blues.
The last time we checked Canada’s PostMedia group was running Big Nate on their consolidated comics page. As was the two dozen Wick Communications papers.
Let us know what your paper is running in place of Big Nate.
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