Monday, May 29, 2023
Jeffrey Lindenblatts Paper Trends: The 300 for 1993 -- Rookies
The top 3 rookies for 1992 are still being syndicated today. The hottest rookie debut is Non Sequitur with 19 papers. When we get to 1995 Non Sequitur would be available formatted as either a panel or a strip. The panel version was offered to gain papers because of the end of Far Side that year. We will be keeping an eye to see which version papers will carry.
The next three big debuts all start off in our survey with 9 papers. Two of them are still being published today; Bound & Gagged and Close To Home. The third, Pop Culture, started with 9 papers but would last only for a few years as a daily (a similar Sunday feature was revived later, as Biographic). The next two both started with 7 papers. One is the comic strip Dave. The other is not really a true rookie; Comics For Kids started as a Sunday-only feature in 1989, but added a daily in 1992 to get into our focus.
Here is the complete breakdown for the Rookies of 1992:
Non Sequitur – 19
Bound & Gagged – 9
Close To Home – 9
Pop Culture – 9
Comics For Kids – 7
Dave – 7
Ducking Out – 3
Guy Stuff – 3
Curious Avenue – 2
Leescapes – 2
Quality Time - 2
Just Add Walter – 1
Pete & Clete – 1
Pitts – 1
Zero – 1
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