Fishing the comics section out of the Sunday paper to read a big Calvin and Hobbes strip was a joy. At the peak of the era, our paper (The Washington Post) actually had two separate comics sections, one with C&H on the front and the other with Peanuts. There was also Doonesbury and Bloom County, many other lesser strips, and even magazines like Parade and Potomac, all of which together provided a full morning’s entertainment.
The genesis of the Post's gigantic comics section (three full pages on weekdays, if I remember correctly) was that they picked up all of the comics that had been run by the Washington Star when the Star (along with all the other evening papers) finally ran out of steam and closed up shop.
