On Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 7:20:04 PM UTC-4, Brian Henke wrote:
> Here is another installment of the Cincinnati Post Comic Strip Index Retro. This time, we're up to 1989.
> Two major sports stories were the paper's focal points of the year. The Bengals made it to Super Bowl XXIII, but then in March the Pete Rose gambling scandal broke. How could a man who loved baseball so much - and defined a generation - could do something as shocking as betting on Reds games? On March 1, the Post had two articles that were related: Boomer Esaison got to be on All My Children (now that ABC canceled the show and stunned its remaining fans) and David Broder said that new baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti - he would go on to ban Rose and die within eight days later that summer - was "the perfect commissioner."
> There were two changes to the Post's comics that year. For months, I had known that Curtis had been picked up by the paper, but I didn't see him. Finally on May 22, he arrived, replacing Willy and Ethel. A story about Curtis ran on Page 3B, while he made his comic page debut on Page 7C. The Post comic page was now integrated for the first time since 1983, and would stay that way for the last 18 years of its existence. By then, the Post was running this ad:
> CALVIN & HOBBES
> Great comics
> PEANUTS
> Everyday
> GAMES & PUZZLES
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> Later that year, the Post got rid of Robotman and added The Fusco Brothers. Later on, when the Post went online with @ThePost, Robotman was one of the comics that was offered. Meanwhile, Rose was suspended for life for betting on baseball. "He is baseball's Judas," then-Post columnist Paul Daugherty wrote.
> Berry's World ran in 1989. Win, Lose or DREW was apparently dropped that year.
> The lineup on December 30, 1989 (a Saturday), was:
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> On editorial page:
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> Doonesbury
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> The main comic page:
> (The Best of) Listen Honey, Long Overdue, Family Circus, Ziggy, Off the Leash
> On the left:
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> The Grizzwells
> Peanuts
> Sally Forth
> Born Loser
> Marvin
> Frank and Ernest
> Rex Morgan, M.D.
> The Ryatts
> Calvin and Hobbes
> On the right:
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> The Fusco Brothers (by J.C. Duffy)
> Curtis (by Ray Billingsley)
> Luann
> FoxTrot
> Nancy (which marked 50 years in the Post on April 3)
> Mother Goose and Grimm
> Hagar (the Horrible)
> Shoe
> (Funky) Winkerbean
> Ten of the Post's strips that started the decade were still around (eight if you count that both Rex Morgan and Funky Winkerbean were dropped, then reinstated in 1980 and 1982, respectively).
> Next: Not World Championship worthy changes.

The Fusco Brothers debuted in the Post September 18, 1989.
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