Jeffrey Lindenblatt's Paper Trends: The 300 for 1999 -- Overall Results

 This year’s survey lost 3 papers, the News-Pilot (San Pedro, CA), San Bernardino County Sun (CA) and Pottsville Republican (PA). So the total for this survey is down to  254 papers. The loss of these three papers has caused an interesting situation at the top of the chart. Since two of these papers ran Garfield and not Peanuts, we now have a tie at the number one position.

In other Top 30 movements, Fox Trot added 7 papers and joined the 100 paper club and moved up 2 spots from 15 to 13. Zits being the big gainer this year it moved up 5 spots from #22 to 17. Rose is Rose enters the Top 30 while Arlo and Janis falls off.

Title (total 254 Papers)	Rank	Rank Change	Papers +/-	Total Papers
Garfield	1	Same	-2	223
Peanuts	1	Up 1	1	223
Blondie	3	Same	-1	209
For Better or For Worse	4	Same	4	204
Beetle Bailey	5	Same	1	182
Dilbert	6	Same	13	178
Family Circus	7	Up 1	4	157
Hagar The Horrible	7	Same	-3	157
Cathy	9	Down 1	-4	149
Doonesbury	10	Same	-1	145
Hi and Lois	11	Same	-1	108
B.C.	12	Same	-1	107
Fox Trot	13	Up 2	7	102
Frank and Ernest	13	Same	-3	102
Wizard of Id	15	Down 1	0	99
Born Loser	16	Same	-2	90
Dennis The Menace	17	Same	-3	81
Zits	17	Up 5	21	81
Shoe	19	Down 1	-4	76
Sally Forth	20	Same	1	65
Marmaduke	21	Down 2	-4	63
Mother Goose and Grimm	22	Down 1	0	61
Baby Blues	23	Up 2	8	58
Close To Home	24	Up 1	4	54
Non Sequitur	24	Down 1	2	54
Ziggy	26	Down 3	1	53
Mallard Fillmore	27	Down 2	1	51
Jump Start	28	Up 2	3	43
Mary Worth	29	Down 1	-2	42
Rose Is Rose	29	Entering	5	42

 Not much movement on the universal comic section this year. The Top 6 and 7 had an increase and like last year the Arizona Republic won the most universal comic section running the Top 26 strips.

Top 2 – 209 (Up 5)
Top 3 – 182 (Up 6)
Top 4 – 157 (Up 5)
Top 5 – 124 (Same)
Top 6 – 88 (Down 3)
Top 7 – 71 (Down 4)
Top 8 – 63 (Up 4)
Top 9 – 56 (Up 9)
Top 10 – 48 (Up 12)
Top 11 – 33 (Up 11)
Top 12 – 23 (Up 8)
Top 13 – 7 (Down 2)
Top 14 – 6 (Up 3)
Top 15 – 4 (Up 1)
Top 16 – 3 (Up 1)
Top 17 – 2 (Same)
Top 18 – 1 (Same)
Top 19 – 1 (Same)
Top 20 – 1 (Same)
Top 21 – 1 (Same)
Top 22 -  1 (Same)
Top 23 -  1 (Same)
Top 24 – 1 (Same)
Top 25 – 1 (Same)
Top 26 – 1 (Same)


The Avenge Number of daily comics run by our papers went up just a tad. It is now 18.18 strips per paper, up from 18.03.

Here are the rest of the features that made this year's survey, along with the number of papers, and their increase or decrease from last year:


41 – Arlo & Janis (-1)

37 – Crankshaft (0), Rex Morgan (0)

36 – Barney Google and Snuffy Smith (-1)

35 – Herman (+8)

33 – Mutts (+4)

32 – Funky Winkerbean (-1), Lockhorns (0), Luann (+2)

28 – Alley Oop (-2), Curtis (0)

25 – Andy Capp (-4), Grizzwells (-1), Kit N Carlyle (+4), Pickles (+3), Rubes (+3)

24 – In The Bleachers (-2), Marvin (-4)

23 - Real Life Adventures (-2)

21 – Geech (0)

19 – Eek and Meek (-1), Judge Parker (+1), Rugrats (R)

18 – One Big Happy (-1), Robotman (0)

17 – Bizarro (-3), Gasoline Alley (-2), Overboard (+1)

16 – Crabby Road (+2), Tank McNamara (-1)

14 – Big Nate (+1), Piranha Club (-1), Stone Soup (+2)

13 – Adam (-2), Drabble (0), Pluggers (0)

12 – Betty (+1), Fred Basset (-2), Mark Trail (0), Sherman Lagoon’s (+4)

11 – Buckles (0), Heathcliff (-5), Hocus-Focus (+3), Phantom (-2), Tiger (-2)

10 – Berry’s World (-3), Dave (+1), Dunigan’s People (+1), Mr. Boffo (0), Nancy (-2), Speed Bump (0), Sylvia (-1)

9 – Amazing Spider-Man (-2), Bound & Gagged (0), Middletons (-1)

8 – Apartment 3-G (-1), Dick Tracy (0), Gil Thorp (0), Zippy (0)

7 – Against The Grain (0), Brenda Starr (0), Duplex (0), I Need Help (-2), Rhymes With Orange (-2), They’ll Do It Every Time (+1)

6 – Buckets (-1), Citizen Dog (0), Herb & Jamaal (-1), Kuduz (0), Mixed Media (-4), Momma (0), Ralph (0)

5 – Archie (-2), Ben (R), Committed (+1), Free For All (+5), Fusco Brothers (0), Grin and Bear It (0), Horrorscope (0), Over The Hedge (-2), Safe Havens (0), Tumbleweeds (0)

4 – Crock, Dr. Katz, Liberty Meadows, 9 Chickweed Lane. Our Fascinating Earth, Strange Brew, That’s Jake, Twins

3 – Bliss, Bottom Liners, Broom Hilda, Comic For Kids, Dinette Set, Donald Duck, Love Is, Motley’s Crew, Murray’s Law, On The Fastrack, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Us & Them, Willy N Ethel

2 – Animal Crackers, Ballard Street, Better Half, Between Friends, Chubb & Chauncey, Claire & Weber, Cornered, Fair Game, Mandrake The Magician, Heart of The City, Meg!, Mickey Mouse, Nest Heads, New Breed, Norm, Quigmans, Redeye, Reality Check, Rip Kirby, Second Chances, Steve Roper and Mike Nomad, Tuttle, Warped

1 – Belvedere, Charlie, Farcus, Good Life, Graffiti, Laffbreak, Littlebuck, Little Orphan Annie, Loose Parts, Meet Mr. Lucky, Modesty Blaise, No Huddle, Offline, Outcasts, Pellets, Raw Material, Rural Rootz, Small Society, Tarzan, Top of The World, Trudy, Tundra, Two Toes, Walnut Cove, Word for Word