Actually it's just the Tribune comics section that became a tabloid-style section when they combined it with the TV guide a few months back. Now they've moved the TV section to Saturday (no doubt hoping the Sunday-only people will have to buy another paper). So the Sunday comics are down to four pages (one sheet), and Sunday Lio didn't make the cut. The first two panels of Doonesbury were also missing today..
Meanwhile Zell is looking to bail on a deal that gave him all the upside, and was always going to leave the employees holding the bag after Zell sold off all the valuable TribCo assets. With the recession, he won't even get his profit on the way to putting about 20,000 employees out on the street.
(P.S. - In fact, the Trib is now putting out a newsstand-only afternoon tabloid edition for the commuter crowd. But the paper mostly remains a broadsheet.)
Sisyphos: Yikes! The Trib is a Tab? Is the Sun-Times now the size of a Reader's Digest? Maybe they could just reduce it all to a microdot. Wait a minute, that's what the comics pages have become. Hmmm. Is there some hidden conspiracy between the publishers and the magnifying glass industry?
