The Big Nate Replacement Thread – An Early Survey (Updated)
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There is not a whole lot more to report from our first post about the Big Nate newspaper replacements.
Adding to that list in the link above is
Wallace the Brave – Minnesota Star-Tribune, The Boston Globe, and the Sunday Washington Post
The Grizzwells – Dallas Morning News
Rosebuds – The Kokomo Tribune, Logansport Pharos-Tribune****
Brevity – Mon Valley Independent
Baldo – The Cedar Rapids Gazette
Lio – Eureka Times Standard
Frazz – The Anchorage Daily News
unknown – The Kerrville Times, Key West Citizen and Free Press, Santa Clarita Daily Signal
Adjusting that first list of replacements the new order comes out as (new papers emboldened)
Rosebuds – possibly 6 (Georges Media Group*, Marietta Daily Journal e-edition, Kokomo Tribune, Logansport Pharos-Tribune)****
Baldo – 4 (Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Idaho Falls Post-Register, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, Cedar Rapids Gazette)
Wallace the Brave – 4 (Charleston Post and Carrier, Washington Post (daily and Sunday), Minnesota Star-Tribune, The Boston Globe)
Adam@Home – 2 (Denver Post**, Marin Independent Journal**)
Lio – 3 (Chico Enterprise-Record, Orville Mercury-Register, Eureka Times Standard)
Breaking Cat News – 1 (Courier of Montgomery County)
Brevity – 1 (Mon Valley Independent)
The Grizzwells – 1 (Dallas Morning News)
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 (Tribune Publishing**)
promo for the Sunday Big Nate – ?? (Advance Publishing***)
unknown – 1 (The Kerrville Times, Key West Citizen & Free Press, Santa Clarita Daily Signal)
* 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 five are 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.
**** Though Rosebuds added two papers in the new survey those two papers are from the CNHI group which is dropping the comics pages in all their newspapers so I didn’t increase the total number for Rosebuds. Update: Dee Parson tells me that the Kokomo and Logansport (publisher: Robyn McCloskey) papers only dropped their Sunday comics and continue to run a daily comics page. But the papers replaced Big Nate with Rosebuds before Big Nate ended, so a gray area as far as replacements are concerned – though they did pick to run the local cartoonist Parson once Peirce’s retirement was announced. Now I wonder if the Terre Haute Tribune-Star, also with McCloskey as publisher, still carries daily comics and runs Rosebuds.
Wallace the Brave moved up to tie with Baldo for the second most additional papers, the note here is that three of Wallace the Brave’s newspapers are top ten circulation leaders (traditionally the higher the circulation numbers the higher the fee for buying syndicated material, hence more $$$ for the cartoonist).
New to the list are The Grizzwells and Brevity.
Newspapers.com carries 18 of the Advance newspapers but on a 30 day delay so unless someone offers the replacement to their unified comics pages it will be a while before I get that big boost. Newspapers.com also carries the Maine Trust Group (Portland Press Herald, Waterville Morning Sentinel, Kennebec Journal, Lewiston Sun-Journal) and Sound Publications (The Everett Daily Herald, Honolulu Star-Advertiser) and The Tampa Bay Times all of which are on that 30 day delay for me.
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