Wednesday, March 08, 2023
Jeffrey Lindenblatt’s Paper Trends: The 300 for 1991 — Results
This year no papers that we surveyed went out of business or merged with another paper, but we still have some missing information on 5 papers making the total for this survey is 268.
In the Top 30 spots, Calvin and Hobbes continued its climb moving one spot from number 5 to number 4 knocking Beetle Bailey down one spot to 5. This is the second time since we started this survey that Beetle Bailey has moved down one slot. Cathy had the biggest movement, up 3 spots from 15 to 12. This year no new strip entered the Top 30.
|
Title |
Place |
Movement |
+/- Papers |
Total Papers |
|
Peanuts |
1 |
Same |
1 |
218 |
|
Blondie |
2 |
Same |
0 |
212 |
|
Garfield |
3 |
Same |
0 |
211 |
|
Calvin and Hobbes |
4 |
Up 1 |
23 |
198 |
|
Beetle Bailey |
5 |
Down 1 |
2 |
189 |
|
Far Side |
6 |
Same |
13 |
176 |
|
Hagar The Horrible |
7 |
Same |
7 |
167 |
|
Doonesbury |
8 |
Same |
1 |
149 |
|
Family Circus |
9 |
Same |
1 |
144 |
|
For Better or For Worse |
10 |
Same |
8 |
137 |
|
Wizard of Id |
11 |
Same |
-3 |
124 |
|
Cathy |
12 |
Up 3 |
12 |
121 |
|
Shoe |
13 |
Down 1 |
-2 |
114 |
|
B.C. |
14 |
Down 1 |
-2 |
108 |
|
Frank and Ernest |
15 |
Down 2 |
-3 |
107 |
|
Hi and Lois |
15 |
Up 1 |
1 |
107 |
|
Born Loser |
17 |
Same |
3 |
95 |
|
Dennis the Menace |
18 |
Same |
-2 |
86 |
|
Andy Capp |
19 |
Same |
-4 |
69 |
|
Marmaduke |
20 |
Same |
-3 |
67 |
|
Herman |
21 |
Up 1 |
-1 |
57 |
|
Mary Worth |
21 |
Same |
-2 |
57 |
|
Mother Goose and Grimm |
23 |
Same |
1 |
56 |
|
Ziggy |
24 |
Up 1 |
2 |
55 |
|
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith |
25 |
Down 1 |
-3 |
51 |
|
Sally Forth |
26 |
Up 2 |
5 |
48 |
|
Rex Morgan |
27 |
Down 1 |
-3 |
46 |
|
Marvin |
28 |
Down 1 |
-2 |
43 |
|
Arlo and Janis |
29 |
Same |
0 |
41 |
|
Funky Winkerbean |
30 |
Down 1 |
-1 |
40 |
Again this year the Universal Comic Strip is getting stronger. The biggest movements are the top 4 to top 8 strips appearing in more papers. This year's Universal Comics winner is the Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick, NJ) which ran the Top 16 strips.
Top 2 – 185 (Up 1)Top 3 – 164 (Up 1)
Top 4 – 148 (Up 14)
Top 5 – 124 (Up 16)
Top 6 – 100 (Up 16)
Top 7 – 78 (Up 12)
Top 8 – 62 (Up 19)
Top 9 – 48 (Up 5)
Top 10 – 37 (Up 3)
Top 11 – 26 (0)
Top 12 – 21 (0)
Top 13 – 17 (0)
Top 14 – 15 (Up 10)
Top 15 – 12 (Up 7)
Top 15 – 1 (Down 4)
Here are the remaining strips that appeared in the Top 300 papers, ranked by newspaper count and noting increase/decrease:
39 – Gasoline Alley (0), Winthorp (-1)
36 – Fox Trot (+1)
35 – Alley Oop (-2)
33 – Heathcliff (+1), The Lockhorns (-1)
32 – Eek and Meek (-3), Grizzwells (+3), Tank McNamara (-4)
28 – Geech (0), Judge Parker (+1)
26 – Dick Tracy (+4), Rose is Rose (0), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (R)
23 – Berry’s World (-3), Kit N Carlyle (-2), Nancy (0)
22 – Snafu (-3)
21 – Crankshaft (0), In The Bleachers (-5), Robotman (+16)
19 – Curtis (-1), Pogo (-13)
18 – Amazing Spider-Man (0)
17 – Luann (-2)
16 – Apartment 3-G (-7), Phantom (+2), Tiger (-5), Tumbleweeds (-1)
15 – Broom Hilda (-1), Fred Basset (0), Mark Trail (0)
13 – Jump Start (+7), Kuduz (0), When I Was Short (R)
12 – Adam (+1), Archie (0), Drabble (0), Dunagin’s People (+2), Ernie (-6)
11 – Donald Duck (+1), Mr. Boffo (-2), Safe Havens (0), Willy N’ Ethel (+1)
10 – Bizarro (0), Brenda Starr (-1), Crock (0), Gil Thorp (0), Rubes (+4), Steve Roper and Mike Nomad (0)
9 – Hazel (0), Herb and Jamaal (+1), Mickey Mouse (+7)
8 – Baby Blues (R), Hocus-Focus (+1), Momma (0), Zippy (0)
7 – Batman (-8), Middletons (-2), Suburban Cowgirls (R), They’ll Do It Every Time (-1)
6 - Animal Crackers (-1), Fusco Brothers (+1), Horrorscope (R), Little Orphan Annie (-1), One Big Happy (+2), Phipps (-5), Redeye (-1), Sports Hall of Shame (+5), Sylvia (+1)
5 - Bent Offerings (0), Dilbert (+1), Duffy (+2), Francie (-1), Grin and Bear It (-1), Love Is (+1), Motley’s Crew (-1), New Breed (-2), Off The Leash (-1), On The Fastrack (-2), Overboard (R), That’s Jake (-1), Trudy (0), Word For Word (-3)
4 - Moose Miller, Rip Kirby, Small Society
3 - Agatha Crumm, Better Half, Catfish, Chubb & Chauncey, Counter Culture, Dillon, Heart of Juliet Jones, Long Overdue, Miss Peach, Our Fascinating Earth, Pickles, Play Better Golf With Jack Nicklaus, Ryatts, Smith Family, Stanley Family, What A Guy, Winnie Winkle
2 – Airwaves, Alex, Ben Wicks, Boner's Ark, Bringing Up Father, Flash Gordon, Flintstones, Good News Bad News, Graffiti, Ophelia & Jake, Pavlov, Phoebe’s Place, Popeye, Queen of the Universe, Quigmans, Sibling Revelry, Single Slices, Warp Factor, Wit of The World
1 – Belvedere, Dad’s-Eye-View, Defunitions, Family Business, Ferd’Nand, Henry, Jasper, Kaleb, Laff-A-Day, Laffbreak, Modesty Blaise, Moon Mullins, Normal, Outcasts, Out of Bounds, Pop’s Place, Potluck, Pot-Shots, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, Sam and Silo, Stan Smith’s Tennis Class, Strahle’s Bailiwick, Tom and Jerry, Wild Life, Willie, Yecch Is
You may request Jeffrey Lindenblatt's complete list, in DOC format, of every paper that ran every feature mentioned in this set of posts. Just write to strippersuide@gmail.com and let me know what year(s) you want.
Labels: Paper Trends
--Allan
: 3/08/2023 2:43 PM 