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Interesting survey on the popularity of certain comics

I don’t report much on the weekly ups and downs of which comics are getting picked up and dropped, but the recent results of a comic survey in the Capital-Journal (Topeka, KS) is interesting. In fine pie-chart form, they report the popularity of the comics they run in the paper. Obviously this is specific to readers in Topeka, but overall, some interesting findings. The top-five popular features were Pickles (95%), Family Circus (92%), Hi and Louis (89%), Blondie (88%) and Beetle Bailey (82%). I think 95% approval for a single comic is amazing (congratulations, Brian). Aside from Pickles, four of the five top comics are “legacy” strips. The five least favorite features were: Pearls Before Swine (66%), Doonesbury (59%), Get Fuzzy (53%), Dilbert (51%), and Judge Parker (42%). Note four of the five strips in the bottom five are NOT legacy strips. This probably speaks more to the demographics of the paper.

Visit Capital-Journal website for more details of their survey and the changes they made if you’re interested.

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