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| ADVICE | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| Ask the Headhunter | Nick Corcodilos | 1x Weekly | English | Q&A format between readers/creator | |
| Astro Advice Monthly | Eugenia Last | Monthly | English | Horoscope. | |
| Astro Advice Weekly | Eugenia Last | Weekly | English | Horoscope. | |
| Dare to Ask | Phillip j. Milano | 1x Weekly | English | Q&A format between readers/creator | |
| Dear Abby | Jeanne Phillips | 7x Weekly | English | The one and only. | |
| Dear Eugenia | Eugenia Last | 1x Weekly | English | Author answers readers' questions | |
| El Horóscopo por Wanda Perry | Wanda Perry | Daily or Weekly | Spanish | Horoscope column from a widely published astrologer. | |
| Focus on the Family | Dr. James Dobson | Weekly | English, Spanish | Forum on family values with a Christian perspective. | |
| The Last Word in Astrology | Eugenia Last | 7x Weekly | English, Spanish | Multimedia astrologer brings an ancient art into the future. | |
| Lovescope | Eugenia Last | Weekly | English | Horoscope. | |
| BUSINESS & FINANCE | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| The Motley Fool | David Gardner and Tom Gardner | Weekly | English | Lively investment advice. | |
| Scott Burns | Scott Burns | 3x Weekly | English | Savvy advice to put your finances in order. | |
| CHILDREN | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| Arcademic Skillbuilder | Arcademics, Inc. | Weekly | English | Educational Games for Your Web Site | |
| Aprendo (I Learn) | La Prensa newspaper | Weekly | Spanish | Colorful and enlightening games and jokes. | |
| Biographic | Steve McGarry | Weekly | English | Boldly illustrated personality profiles targeted at the teen reader. | |
| Family Time Crossword | Timothy Parker | 2x Weekly | English | Crossword puzzle with kid-friendly clues. | |
| Magic in a Minute | Mac and Bill King | Weekly | English | Magic tricks for kids. 1/3 st., and 1/4 st. | |
| The Mini Page | Betty Debnam | Weekly | English | High-interest activities lead kids to newspapers. | |
| The Mini Page E-dition | Weekly | English | High-interest activities lead kids to newspapers. | ||
| Ronaldinho Goucho | Mauricio de Sousa | 7x Weekly, Daily and Sunday | English and Spanish | Comic strip. | |
| Tell Me a Story | Adapted by Amy Friedman and Illustrated by Jillian Gilliland |
Weekly | English | A charming classic or original children's story, with enchanting art. | |
| www.4kids.org | www.4kids.org | Weekly | English | Eye-catching guide to the Internet for kids, parents and teachers. | |
| You Can With Beakman and Jax | Jok Church | Weekly | English, Spanish | Lively science feature for kids. | |
| COMIC PANELS | ||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | |
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Argyle Sweater | Scott Hilburn | Daily and Sunday | English |
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Close to Home | John McPherson | Daily and Sunday | English |
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Cornered | Mike Baldwin | Daily, color or b/w and Sunday | English |
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The 5th Wave | Rich Tennant | Weekly, b/w or color | English |
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The Flying McCoys | Glenn and Gary McCoy | Daily and Sunday | English |
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In the Bleachers | Steve Moore | Daily and Sunday | English |
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Non Sequitur | Wiley Miller | Daily and Sunday | English, Dutch |
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Real Life Adventures | Lance Aldrich and Gary Wise | Daily and Sunday | English |
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Tutelandia | Tute | Daily | Spanish |
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Ziggy | Tom Wilson and Tom Wilson Sr. | Daily and Sunday | English, Spanish |
| COMIC STRIPS | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | ||
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Adam@Home | Brian Basset | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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Baldo | Hector Cantú and Carlos Castellanos |
Daily and Sunday | English, Spanish | |
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The Boondocks | Aaron McGruder | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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Calvin & Hobbes (outside North America ONLY) |
Bill Watterson | Daily and Sunday | English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese | |
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Cathy | Cathy Guisewite | Daily and Sunday | English, Spanish | |
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Cleats | Bill Hinds | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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Condorito | Rene "Pepo" Rios | Daily and sunday | English and Spanish | |
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La Cucaracha | Lalo Alcaraz | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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Cul de Sac | Richard Thompson | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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Doonesbury | Garry Trudeau | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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The Duplex | Glenn McCoy | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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The Elderberries | Cory Pandolph | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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For Better or for Worse | Lynn Johnston | Daily and Sunday | English, Spanish | |
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FoxTrot | Bill Amend | Daily and Sunday | English, Spanish | |
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Fred Bassett | Alex Graham | Daily and Sunday | English, Spanish | |
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The Fusco Brothers | Joe Duffy | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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Garfield | Jim Davis | Daily and Sunday | English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, (Dailies in English and Spanish only) | |
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Gaturro | NIK | 7x Weekly | Spanish | |
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Ginger Meggs Outside North America ONLY. |
James Kemsley | Daily and Sunday | English, Spanish | |
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Heart Of The City | Mark Tatulli | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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Ink Pen | Phil Dunlap | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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In the Sticks | Nathan Cooper | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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James Bond | Ian Fleming (various artists) | Daily and Sunday | English, Spanish | |
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Judge Dredd | Wagner, Grant and Gibson | 7x Weekly | English | |
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lio | Mark Tatulli | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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Modesty Blaise | Peter O'Donnell | 6x Weekly | Spanish | |
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Mutt and Jeff | Bud Fisher | Daily and Sunday | English, Spanish | |
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Non Sequitur | Wiley Miller | Daily and Sunday | English, Dutch | |
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Overboard | Chip Dunham | Daily and Sunday | English, Spanish | |
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Pepe | Moco | 6x Weekly | English, Spanish | |
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Pooch Café | Paul Gilligan | Daily and Sunday | English, Spanish, Dutch | |
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Ronaldinho | Mauricio de Sousa | Daily and Sunday | English, Spanish | |
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Stone Soup | Jan Eliot | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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Tank McNamara | Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds | Daily and Sunday | English | |
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Tom the Dancing Bug | Ruben Bolling | Weekly | English | |
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W.T. Duck | Aaron Johnson | Weekly | English | |
| EDITORIAL CARTOONS | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| The gauges in the Description column indicate where the creators generally falls on the political spectrum. | |||||
| Auth | Tony Auth | 3x Weekly | English |  |
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| Bad Reporter | Don Asmussen | 2x Weekly | English | ||
| Carlson | Stuart Carlson | 4x Weekly | English | |
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| Lalo | Lalo Alcaraz | Weekly | English, Spanish |  |
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| McCoy | Glenn McCoy | 3x Weekly | English |  |
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| Oliphant | Pat Oliphant | 3x Weekly | English | |
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| Rall | Ted Rall | 3x Weekly | English | |
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| Ramirez Outside North America ONLY. |
Mike Ramirez | 4x Weekly | Spanish | |
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| Sargent | Ben Sargent | 4x Weekly | English | |
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| Toles | Tom Toles | 5x Weekly | English, Spanish (Weekly) | |
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| Waghorn | Kerry Waghorn | 3x Weekly | English | Established master caricaturist. | |
| EDITORIAL & COMMENTARY | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| Ann Coulter | Ann Coulter | 2x Weekly | English | The conservative movement's new diva. | |
| Maggie Gallagher | Maggie Gallagher | 2x Weekly | English | Commentary from a female conservative boomer. | |
| Georgie Anne Geyer | Georgie Anne Geyer | 3x Weekly | English | Viewpoints from a premier foreign correspondent. | |
| Richard Reeves | Richard Reeves | Weekly | English | Shrewd and surprising insights on American politics and culture. | |
| National Perspective | David Shribman | Weekly | English | Social and political commentary from well-respected executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. | |
| As I See It | Cynthia Tucker | Weekly | English | Compassionate, commonsense commentary from a black moderate. | |
| ENTERTAINMENT | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| Roger Ebert | Roger Ebert | 3x to 7x Weekly | English | Movie reviews, interviews, Q and A, and weekly home video alert from a Pulitzer Prize winner. | |
| FOOD | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| 7-Day Menu Planner | Susan Nicholson | Weekly | English | Day-by-day menu plans, recipes and time-saving tips. | |
| Supermarket Sampler | Bonnie Tandy Leblang and Carolyn Wyman | Weekly | English | Clever, informative reviews of what's new on grocery shelves. Includes photo. | |
| HUMOR | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| News of the Weird | Chuck Shepherd | Weekly | English, Spanish | The best bizarre-but-true news of recent weeks. | |
| LIFESTYLE & CONSUMER | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| At Home | Weekly | English | Home decor, interior design and garden design columns | ||
| Do Just One Thing | Danny Seo | Weekly | English | Edo-friendly tips | |
| Earthweek | Steve Newman | Weekly | English | Graphic digest of natural and environmental events worldwide. | |
| Figuratively Speaking | John MacIntyre | 1x Weekly | English | Statistics column. | |
| Focus on the Family | Dr. James Dobson | Weekly | English, Spanish | Forum on family values with a Christian perspective. | |
| Hollywood & Line | Ben Eckstein | Weekly | English | Hollywood focused odds column. | |
| On Ethics | Randy Cohen | Weekly | English | Thoughtful, wry approach to ethical questions. | |
| Pet Connection Column | Gina Spadafori | Weekly | English | Expert advice and heartwarming stories. | |
| Pet Connection Page | Gina Spadafori | Weekly | English | Expert advice. heartwarming stories, plus color photos and room for ads. | |
| RealStyle | 1x Weekly | English | Style column focusing subjects as varied as why Americans hate umbrellas, the special power of boots, safe socks and a myriad of other fashion themes. | ||
| Religion News Service | 5x Weekly | English | News and features pertaining to religion, ethics, spirituality and moral issues. | ||
| Religion News Service Weekly Report | Weekly | English | One feature with photo, two articles and one columnist. | ||
| Smart Moves | Ellen James Martin | Weekly | English | All the basics home buyers and sellers need. | |
| NEWS SERVICES | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| The Daily, print and video | Brandusa Nero | Daily | English, Spanish | Fashion and celebrity news and photo service. | |
| Fronteras | Danilo Black and UPS | Weekly | Spanish | Paginated, 32-page customizable insert in color. | |
| The Independent | Daily (Eng) or Weekly (Spa) | English, Spanish | Unique international news service featuring renowned journalists. | ||
| Push Publisher | Daily | English | A downloadable application for your readers' mobile smart phones | ||
| Religion News Service | 5x Weekly or Weekly | English | News and features pertaining to religion, ethics, spirituality and moral issues. | ||
| PUZZLES | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| Baker Street Puzzle | Weekly | English | Word and logic puzzles. | ||
| Crucigramas Diarios | Angel Freire | 6x Weekly | Spanish | Traditional crossword puzzle from a leading puzzlemaster. | |
| Family Time Crossword | Timothy Parker | 2x Weekly | English | Crossword puzzle with kid-friendly clues. | |
| Hidato | Dr. Gyora Benedek | Weekly | English, Spanish | Logic based puzzle. | |
| The Magic Eye | Cheri Smith and Dawn Zimiles | Weekly | English, Spanish | 3-D color visual puzzle. | |
| Merlin's World of Marvels | Weekly | English | Interesting, true facts from around the world. | ||
| Pasatiempos (Pastimes) | Angel Freire | Weekly | Spanish | Ever-changing variety of games (6 different games per week). | |
| Sopa De Letras (Word Soup) | Angel Freire | 6x Weekly | Spanish | Traditional word search, with a twist. | |
| Teleword | David Ouellet | Weekly and Sunday | English | A true test of word power. | |
| The Universal Crossword | Timothy Parker | Daily and Weekly | English | Some of the hottest puzzles in print. | |
| The Universal Diagramless Crossword | Timothy Parker | Daily and Weekly | English | Some of the hottest puzzles in print. | |
| Universal Kakuro | Timothy Parker | Daily and Weekly | English | Some of the hottest puzzles in print. | |
| Universal Sudoku | David Bodycombe | Daily and Weekly | English, Spanish | A worldwide puzzle that uses numbers instead of words. | |
| Sudoku X and Sudoku X Mini | Daily and Weekly | English, Spanish | This puzzle is a variation on classic Sudoku where each shaded diagonal must also contain each digit exactly once. | ||
| Whatzit? | Paul Sellers | 6x Weekly | English | Compact, visual brain-teasers. | |
| Wonderword | David Ouellet | Daily and Sunday | English | Find the words for daily theme. | |
| Paginated Pages | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| Golf Insider | T.J. Tomasi | Weekly | English | Combines the best of golf circuit coverage with instruction from former pro golfer T.J. Tomasi. | |
| How-to Guide | Cox News Service | One-time package purchase | English | 99 paginated pages for you to create your newspaper's own special section buying guide. | |
| NASCAR Insider | Cox News Service | Weekly or 2x Weekly | English | Complete update on NASCAR news. | |
| Wheels | Tom Strongman | Weekly | English | Features and road tests. | |
| SERIALS | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| SPORTS | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| America's Line | Ben Eckstein | 7x Weekly | English | Up-to-the-minute betting lines from the most respected Nevada oddsmaker. | |
| Golf Insider | T.J. Tomasi | Weekly | English | Golf instruction and insider information from a Top 100 teaching professional. | |
| NASCAR Insider | Cox News Service | Weekly | English | Two-parts each week covering the racing circuit. | |
| NCAA Conference Basketball | Weekly | English | Weekly preview of college conference basketball. | ||
| NCAA Conference Football | Weekly | English | Weekly preview of college conference football. | ||
| SUNDAY COMICS | ||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Languages | Sizes | |
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Adam@Home | Brian Bassett | English | 1/2 st., 1/3 st., 1/4 st., full and 1/2 tab |
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Baldo | Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos |
English, Spanish | 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/3 tab |
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The Boondocks | Aaron McGruder | English | 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/3 tab |
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Calvin & Hobbes (outside North America ONLY) |
Bill Watterson | English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese | 1/2 tab |
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Cathy | Cathy Guisewite | English, Spanish | 1/2 st. 1/3 st., 1/4 st., full and 1/2 tab |
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Cleats | Bill Hinds | English | 1/2 st., 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/2 tab |
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Close to Home | John McPherson | English | 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/3 tab |
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Condorito | Pepo | Spanish | 1/2 tab |
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Cornered | Mike Baldwin | English | 1/3 st., 1/3 tab |
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La Cucaracha | Lalo Alcaraz | English | 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/2 tab |
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Doonesbury | Garry Trudeau | English | 1/2 st., 1/3 st., full and 1/2 tab |
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The Duplex | Glenn McCoy | English | 113 st., 1/4 st., and 1/3 tab |
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The Elderberries | Phil Frank & Joe Troise | English | 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/2 tab |
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The Flying McCoys | Glenn and Gary McCoy | English | 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/3 tab |
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For Better or for Worse | Lynn Johnston | English, Spanish | 1/2 st., 1/3 st., 1/4 st., full tab |
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FoxTrot | Bill Amend | English, Spanish | 1/2 st., 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/2 tab |
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Fred Basset | Alex Graham | English, Spanish | 1/2 tab |
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The Fusco Brothers | J.C. Duffy | English | 1/2 st., 1/3 st., 1/4 and 1/2 tab |
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Garfield | Jim Davis | English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, German | 1/2 st., 1/3 st., 1/4 st., full and 1/2 tab |
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Heart of the City | Mark Tatulli | English | 1/3 st. 1/4 st., and 1/3 tab |
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In the Bleachers | Steve Moore | English | 1/3 st. and 1/4 st. |
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James Bond | Ian Fleming (and various artists) | English, Spanish | 1/2 tab |
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Magic Eye | Cheri Smith | English, Spanish | 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/3 tab |
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Mutt and Jeff | Bud Fisher | English, Spanish | Full and 1/2 tab |
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Non Sequitur | Wiley Miller | English | Vertical |
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Overboard | Chip Dunham | English, Spanish | 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/3 tab |
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Pooch Cafe | Paul Gilligan | English, Spanish, Dutch | 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/2 tab |
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Prickly City | Scott Stantis | English | 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/2 tab |
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Real Life Adventures | Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich | English | 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/3 tab |
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Stone Soup | Jan Eliot | English | 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/3 tab |
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Tank McNamara | Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds | English | 1/2 st., 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/2 tab |
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You Can With Beakman & Jax | Jok Church | English, Spanish | 1/4 st., and 1/2 tab |
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Wonderword | David Ouellet | English | 1/3 st. and 1/2 tab |
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Www.4kids.org | www.4kids.org | English | 1/3 st., 1/4 st., and 1/2 tab |
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Ziggy | Tom Wilson and Tom Wilson II | English, Spanish | 1/2 st., 1/3 st., 1/4 st., full and 1/2 tab |
| WEATHER | |||||
| Feature | Creator(s) | Frequency | Languages | Description | |
| WeatherBug | WeatherBug | 7x Weekly | English | Online and mobile weather space. | |
| ONLINE FEATURES | ||||||
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