By: E&P Staff The Houston Chronicle, which had perhaps the largest daily comics section of any U.S. print newspaper, announced that it's dropping a page of comics to save money on newsprint costs and syndication fees.
Silver linings in the decision are that the dropped comics can still be seen on Chron.com, one of the remaining daily print pages will be in color, and the Sunday comics section is not being reduced.
Comics dropped reportedly include "Arctic Circle," "Buckles," "Cathy," "Cleats," "Crock," "Dennis the Menace," "Diesel Sweeties," "The Dinette Set," "Drabble," "Gasoline Alley," "Heathcliff," "Judge Parker," "The Lockhorns," "Marmaduke," "Mary Worth," "Mr. Boffo," "My Cage," "Real Life Adventures," "Rubes," "Shoe," "Spot the Frog," "Sylvia," and "The Wizard of Id."
The Chronicle said the pulled comics include some that fared poorly in reader surveys, some older ones no longer being done by their original creators, and some too new to have had a chance to develop a following.
Several readers complained that dropping the comics from the print edition gives them another reason to drop their Chronicle subscriptions.
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