'When Northeast Ohio’s Tom Batiuk decided to retire the beloved Funky Winkerbean at the end of 2022, the pickings to replace it were slim. We went with Beetle Bailey, and nary a day has gone by since without someone writing me to question that decision.'
A wise and worldly editor once offered two simple rules. Rule 1: Don’t mess with the comics. Rule 2: If you ignore Rule 1, take a long, out-of-town vacation. As you will see, I have broken the first rule.
The situation today is light years from what editors faced in 2002. Comics today are a waning art form. We don’t have folders bulging with new offerings, so when Northeast Ohio’s Tom Batiuk decided to retire the beloved Funky WInkerbean at the end of 2022, the pickings to replace it were slim. My response is that the Beetle Bailey of 2023 is not the Beetle Bailey of yore. We don’t see the shameful leering by military brass. The pummelings that regularly left Beetle in a pile of squiggly lines are gone.
The Plain Dealer is the only newspaper in the Advance Local chain not publishing it, and readers in our other markets like it. That is the chief reason we selected it. Having uniformity among our markets will eventually make it easier for us to prepare our comics pages – and expand them. Why create uniform comics pages? If Jeff’s team starts adding extra content to the digital edition, he will need efficiency. Having unified comics pages across all of our markets might be one strategy for efficiency.
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