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Shares of Gannett Are Soaring Today Analysts at Citigroup placed Gannett on a “90-day positive catalyst watch” this morning. Shares…
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Confirmed: The Kingdom Comes to Lee – Updated with Daily and Sunday Samples
While yesterday had a few Lee Enterprises newspapers announce changes to their comics and puzzles, today there was a flood…
SaltWire Network Now Part of Postmedia, “company known to ‘slash and burn'”
Postmedia, Canada’s largest newspaper publisher, has taken ownership of major parts of SaltWire Network, the largest newspaper group in the…
Support Your Local Cartoonist
If you are a lover of the medium, please consider supporting a couple of your favorite artists. As staff positions…
Whatnot Wednesday Weirdness
Newspapers From this past weekend’s Albany Times-Union: On April 4, 1924, the Times Union told its readers it had officially…
Seven Days’ 2024 Cartoon Issue
Vermont’s alternative newspaper Seven Days has released its annual Cartoon Issue. This year’s special comic features includes efforts by Mary…
The San Luis Obispo Tribune Ditches Dailies – A McClatchy Trend?
Beginning April 15, 2024 The San Luis Obispo Tribune will reduce the frequency of it print edition, from six days…
Vintage Quincy Missing at Comics Kingdom
Quincy has not run away. But the proof sheet of the vintage Quincy daily comic strips for the week of…
Newspaper Cartoonists Use Digital Tools, but Not as You’d Expect
I spent dozens of hours last fall interviewing newspaper cartoonists about how they draw their work, assuming that many would…
Newspaper Deathwatch: SaltWire Network (Cartoonists MacKinnon and de Adder)
From The Toronto Star report: HALIFAX – A private equity fund is initiating insolvency proceedings against Atlantic newspaper owner SaltWire…
The Real Gannett Conspiracy = Chauvinism
In one of my answers in the comments section of The Great Gannett Comics Conspiracy I sarcastically said, “It’s like…
The Gannett 34 Comics Lineup – An Update: The Lockhorns Out, Sally Forth In
All this talk about Gannett and Doonesbury and The Gannett 34 reminds me I never updated the list. The original…
Newspaper Delivery & Publication Changes
The time honored tradition of the newsboy delivering the daily newspaper is no more. Begun long ago with boys hawking…
Unified Comics Page Sweepstakes Winners and how to help those left out in the cold
So who came out ahead with the recent spat of newspaper groups standardizing their comics pages? Gannett/USA TODAY Network with…
McClatchy Standard Comics Pages Update
It’s been three years since we first reported on McClatchy standardizing the comics pages in all their papers. Since that…