The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, January 1, 1996                TAG: 9512290242
SECTION: DAILY BREAK              PAGE: E1   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   23 lines

TO OUR READERS

The New Year brings both good and bad news to comics fans.

``Calvin and Hobbes'' has left the funny pages. The mischievous boy and his tiger appeared in their last adventure Sunday; the comic's creator, Bill Watterson, decided to discontinue the strip.

The strip readers voted as a replacement, ``Mother Goose and Grimm,'' debuts on our daily comic page today (it's been appearing in the Sunday comics for several months). And as a bonus, we've added a quirky little cartoon called ``Non Sequitur.''

We've also moved the Cryptoquip to the puzzle section, facing the comics.

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