New York/New Jersey newspaper comics

NY Daily News building.
Also, Daily Planet in Superman movies.

I was in New York for a couple of weeks and of course, I checked out the newspaper comics daily. In the past, you could get a lot of the area newspapers at the train stations, you know, from New Jersey or upstate New York, but like in most cities, circulation areas have been cut down, so now it's not the case.

In New York City, I mostly read the New York Daily News and Newsday (Long Island's daily), The New York Post doesn't have many comics and the few they have are small and buried in the paper. The Daily News is not as great with comics as it used to be, there's a two page spread and where I used to love The Daily News for running the comics I grew up with, they are quite progressive these days in that they run a lot of new strips, which is daring in that so many readers complain when their favorite classics are dropped, but The Daily News doesn't seem to care, and that's maybe a good thing.

Newsday has a lot of new strips, too and they treat the comics with respect.

Now New Jersey -- I love that I can just hop on a PATH train and be in Jersey in a few minutes. And right there, across from the subway station is a store that sells all the New York papers and a few Jersey papers like The Record (I remember this as the Bergen Record a few years ago), The Star Ledger (I remember this as the Newark Star Ledger, Tony Soprano's daily newspaper) and the Jersey Journal. All of these papers do the comics right. One paper, I forget which one, runs the comics in black and white, but all of them run them large and they run a lot, two papers run 36 daily comics and one runs 26.

These commuter cities sell lots of newspapers and people do read them. But I don't see as many people reading on the subway as I used to as the people who probably read the papers on the trains now are on their ipods, cell phones and ipads (hopefully reading the comics there!).