As mentioned here not too long ago, Gannett/USA Today has standardized the selection of comic strips its member papers can use. By chance, last Sunday’s local Gannett paper included a surprise. In addition to the regular comics, shown on the left, there was the comics section for the Burlington Free Press, on the right.
And lookee at that. Burlington has four pages of Sunday comics, with the first two pages being identical to my local edition.
The long, slow withdrawal from printed newspapers in general, and syndicated comic strips in particular, continues. It’s just a little bit less painful in Vermont.
