When they came for the comics...

by: Jason Springer

Fri Aug 07, 2009 at 06:00:00 PM EDT

A week after cutting six comic strips and moving a half-page of the daily funnies to another location -- which drew some 1,200 complaints -- The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. has returned two of the strips to print.

"Virtually no one liked the change," Editor Jim Willse told E&P. "We were not surprised by that.

But in an editors note on the front page of the feature section yesterday, the paper revealed the angry backlash and announced the two comics would return. "Most of you thought the moves were dumb, to put it mildly," the note stated. "Dismayed. Unhappy. Disappointed. Upset. These were some of the feelings you expressed in your comments."

The note added that some e-mails were signed by entire families.