Mason and Mick Mastroianni draw and write "B.C." from a studio on the outskirts of this upstate New York city. Newer strips are often the ones cut first, but even so-called legacy comics are feeling the pinch. The number of strips dropped usually outnumbers the strips added, although sometimes papers will continue providing the eliminated cartoons online.
Some newspapers are trying to mask the cutbacks by holding "Survivor"-style contests asking readers which strips to jettison, and which to pick up.
However, after an enormous outcry - more than 1,200 reader complaints - the Star-Ledger backed away from the reductions. "Sometimes change isn't funny, but it is necessary," the paper told readers.
The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., told readers that reducing the comics section by one page would save $300,000 a year.
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