As the hardreading staff has diligently chronicled, the Boston Globe joined dozens of other newspapers in dumping Non Sequitur for inviting Donald Trump to do something anatomically impossible in its comic strip last week.
In yesterday’s Boston Herald comics page, Pearls Before Swine offered this commentary.
Beyond that, Two Daily Town has received several protests to the Globe’s defenestration of Non Sequitur.
Draw, as it were, your own conclusions.
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As the hardreading staff has previously noted, the Boston Globe had no immediate reaction to last Sunday’s Non Sequitur comic, which contained what was widely described as a “profane and vulgar” message to Donald Trump inviting him to do something, well, anatomically impossible.
All week newspapers have been busy dropping the strip (The Daily Cartoonist stopped counting at 45), and today the Globe followed suit with this Page 2 editor’s note.
So, instead of this on today’s comics pages . . .
Globe readers got this.
If Non Sequitur had to go (which, in truth, it didn’t), Zippy the Pinhead is an excellent replacement.
(To be sure graf goes here)
To be sure, there were a couple of protests on Twitter.
But that’s pretty much all the blowback we saw.
According to the editor’s note, the Sunday Globe will continue to stiff Zippy, opting instead for Half Full, which is, to be fair, half funny.
Hey – six out of seven Zippys ain’t bad.
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As the hardreading staff noted yesterday, the strip has hit the fan over Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur comic on Sunday, which featured this smash note for Donald Trump (it’s now been erased from the web version).
That caused a number of papers to drop the strip, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Butler (PA) Eagle, Orlando Sentinel, the Sun Sentinel of South Florida, the Post Bulletin of Rochester, MN, the Post-Standard of Syracuse, the Columbus Dispatch, and . . . well, tally them yourself here.
But not, as yet, the Boston Globe.
So we tweeted this a couple of hours ago to Globe editor Brian McGrory.
So far, no reply.
All this mishegas coincides with yesterday’s launch of the expanded Globe comics pages, which now look like this.
As it happens, the four restored comics – Mother Goose & Grimm, Bizarro, Rose Is Rose, and Adam @ Home – share the kiddie table on the right with Non Sequitur.
Memo to Globe readers who voted for Rose Is Rose and Adam@Home: Here’s what you brought back to the party.
When you could’ve had this . . .
. . . and this.
As Indiana Jones might say, you chose poorly.
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Well the hardreading staff was checking out Politico Playbook (yes, Mike Allen is crazy enough to post on Thanksgiving and, yes, we’re crazy enough to read it on Thanksgiving) when we came across this:
TODAY’S PLEASINGLY PLUMP WashPost has 34 Black Friday circulars in the blue bag (and doubles the usual weekday cover price to $2.50). The Raleigh News & Observer, with 43 inserts, triples the normal price to $3. The garish cover of the Richmond Times-Dispatch promises “up to 900 pages of savings” (and profit for the paper), and raises the price from $1.25 to $3.50 (even gouging subscribers with a surcharge). The Dallas Morning News bills today’s paper as “Biggest issue, biggest deals of the year … SPECIAL PRICE $3” – twice the usual price for a weekday issue.
Hmmm, we bethought ourselves – wonder what the locals did on the pricing front. So we went to the front pages.
Today’s Boston Globe:
Regular weekday Globe:
Notice that the snowbirds get the same price both days, likely because they didn’t get the umpteen Doorbuster! inserts.
Crosstown at today’s Boston Herald:
Yesterday’s Herald:
In case you’re wondering, the catchpenny local tabloid was chockablock with inserts. But it was no Pursebuster! The stately local broadsheet should take notice.
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New trend in newspapers (via Politico):
WE LOVE THAT THE THANKSGIVING PAPERS remain pleasantly plump. The (Portland) Oregonian in our driveway had 46 inserts, including a 60-page Macy’s monster with inserts within the insert.
WHAT WE DON’T LOVE: The new, Scrooge-like practice of charging home-delivery subscribers MORE for the paper BECAUSE it’s fat with ads (“added value”), and therefore more lucrative for the publisher. Jim Romenesko posted the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s note to its EZ Pay subscribers: “Because of its large size (last year’s was 5 pounds), the Thanksgiving Day newspaper is the most expensive to produce and difficult to distribute. … Effective this year, we will charge a premium rate of $2.35 for the Thanksgiving Day newspaper. This charge will be debited to your newspaper account … Our Christmas Day holiday edition will be packed with after-holiday savings from your favorite retailers. … [W]e will charge a premium rate of $1.50.”
Here’s the Romenesko post (from November 7).
Some newspapers, though, are only going halfway with the gambit.
WE’RE FINE WITH charging more for today’s fat issue at the newsstand, which a bunch of papers are doing: The WashPost imposed Sunday rates ($2.50 instead of $1.25); The Boston Globe is the Sunday price of $3.50, up from the daily $1.25. L.A. Times is $2, up from the usual $1.50. Regular prices: Chicago Tribune at $1.50; Newsday (Long Island) at $1.25.
From today’s Globe:
What about Newsstand Nation – you fine with that?
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