A day without comics is like a day without...
On occasion, readers tell me that they don't like our comics selection. Not funny, is the common refrain, although one group thinks that Zits, Get Fuzzy and Pearls before Swine are terrible, and another group says that Ziggy, Family Circus and Beetle Bailey are snooze inducing.
Today we upset both by republishing last Monday's strips. (How can you tell, I asked one caller, who was not amused.) Tomorrow, we'll publish today's correct comics and Tuesday's, doubling either their pleasure or their pain, depending.
As I've often noted, while we journalists spend most of our time on the journalism, an abundance of readers want the regular things -- horoscope, comics, bridge -- that we add no value to, other than delivering them to their homes. That should tell us something.
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John is kind to post this and take the heat for it, but there error was in my department, the Production Department. One of our teams output the page 15 minutes before it was updated. We're making process changes today to keep this from happening again. Sorry about that, folks.
Posted on August 4, 2008 11:39 AM
Rosemary Yardley is probably your
best comic -
Posted on August 4, 2008 12:31 PM