Thanks for this post, Jason. It's a mind boggling testament to how the newspaper business has been shooting themselves in the foot for the last two decades by providing less of what subscribers want (local news & entertainment like comics) in lieu of becoming ad filled rags full of bland news and crap political bias. I guess we can land a majority of this blame on the shoulders of Rupert Murdoch and other monopolists, who have led the charge on this suicidal short-sighted greed. If only newspaper and magazine publishers had learned to focus on the mindset and needs of their reader's instead of marketing drivel. Sigh.
The newspaper delivery dude accidentally dropped a copy of the Dayton Daily News in my driveway on Sunday ... (I checked to see if my two neighbors who still get the paper got theirs... they did, so ... free paper!) I hadn’t read a paper DDN for years and was surprised that the comics was just a tab flysheet on the back of the ad pack. It felt like an afterthought of compulsory obligation rather that something we used to look forward to reading and poring over repeatedly like we used to read a cereal box.
I wonder where Mike Peters is now...
*disclaimer; I used to work at the DDN and once wore the Grimey character suit for an event when nobody else wanted to.... everyone there did at least once 😁
Truly love your childhood doodles
Thanks for this post, Jason. It's a mind boggling testament to how the newspaper business has been shooting themselves in the foot for the last two decades by providing less of what subscribers want (local news & entertainment like comics) in lieu of becoming ad filled rags full of bland news and crap political bias. I guess we can land a majority of this blame on the shoulders of Rupert Murdoch and other monopolists, who have led the charge on this suicidal short-sighted greed. If only newspaper and magazine publishers had learned to focus on the mindset and needs of their reader's instead of marketing drivel. Sigh.
The newspaper delivery dude accidentally dropped a copy of the Dayton Daily News in my driveway on Sunday ... (I checked to see if my two neighbors who still get the paper got theirs... they did, so ... free paper!) I hadn’t read a paper DDN for years and was surprised that the comics was just a tab flysheet on the back of the ad pack. It felt like an afterthought of compulsory obligation rather that something we used to look forward to reading and poring over repeatedly like we used to read a cereal box.
I wonder where Mike Peters is now...
*disclaimer; I used to work at the DDN and once wore the Grimey character suit for an event when nobody else wanted to.... everyone there did at least once 😁