WaPo doesn't understand comics 2: Sunday's biz section mess

Jeff Stein and Vreni Stollberger may have created a perfectly good comic strip about the debt ceiling. Certainly the teaser image and text on the front page of Sunday's business section looks appealing.

However, when you open the page, instead of seeing one broadsheet comic of a basic ten panels, it's broken up into two black and white panels per page, for five pages, totally interrupting the rhythm and flow of the strip.

 

 

Presumably, they were more concerned about how it looked online, where it would work easily as a vertical scroll. Ah, yes it does. But it would be nice if they would show a little respect to both their creators, and the readers of their print publication, which is probably still subsidizing most of the electronic paper, by not giving us this bastardized unreadable mess.

WaPo doesn't understand comics 1: Today's Reply All LITE panel [CORRECTED]

 

... has the Scary Gary comic strip from May 18, 2019* squished into local cartoonist Donna Lewis' Reply All Lite's panel space. Lite only appears in the Post as far as I know, while the main strip is widely syndicated. Whoops. Lucky they don't think the comics matter anyway.

 

*Thanks to DD Degg for correctly identifying the substituted strip. In my defense, the original is only about 3" high in the actual paper.