Late 80s, so that would be the Iran-Contra affair aka the Ollie North hearings that were widely watched, back before cable TV was Balkanized by Fox News.
So "comics getting smaller" was actually a real thing.
Collectively across the US, the daily newspapers shrunk the size of comic strips, which freed up more precious page space for other things like ads, or in rare cases, more comic strips.
Comic strips are an expense for a newspaper, so having them take up less space was a common practice.
Eventually with declining readership, and especially younger readers, and corporate buyouts of local newspapers, many papers eliminated their comics page altogether.
There's a great Bloom County Sunday strip where Opus is dreaming they're on the Enterprise, and Scotty is shrinking the comics, "All except Doonesbury - it won't budge!" But they shrink into a black dot.
"Iran goes ... President... "
Wonder when this was published? Carter or Bush ?
Published in 1988 (upper-right), so that would be Reagan.
Late 80s, so that would be the Iran-Contra affair aka the Ollie North hearings that were widely watched, back before cable TV was Balkanized by Fox News.
Totally missed that date. Thanks guys!
So "comics getting smaller" was actually a real thing.
Collectively across the US, the daily newspapers shrunk the size of comic strips, which freed up more precious page space for other things like ads, or in rare cases, more comic strips.
Comic strips are an expense for a newspaper, so having them take up less space was a common practice.
Eventually with declining readership, and especially younger readers, and corporate buyouts of local newspapers, many papers eliminated their comics page altogether.
There's a great Bloom County Sunday strip where Opus is dreaming they're on the Enterprise, and Scotty is shrinking the comics, "All except Doonesbury - it won't budge!" But they shrink into a black dot.
Ack!