Sound off time: Take The Gazette comics survey

Some time ago I wrote that we would be seeking some meaningful feedback from people who read comics in The Gazette.

The time is now.

Our marketing department has put together a survey to help us zero in not only on the comics people read in The Gazette every day but those comics they enjoy most.

The distinction is important. In all the feedback I get about our comics, those that our last survey showed as being read a lot often get suggested as ones that would not be missed. Also interesting are comics that show up near the middle or below the survey in terms of being read but which have strong audiences.

I'm talking, here, about the recently departed “Retail”; the loyally followed “Doonesbury” and “Mallard”; and the temporarily banished in 2009, “Pearls Before Swine” and  “Get Fuzzy,” which have shown up on a few notes from readers this year as comics that could go.

Science? Hardly.

Here is our best shot at it, though. Let us know what you like. A ballot is published in the Sunday, April 18, Gazette but you're reading digital. Go ahead and take the survey online at www.GazetteOnline.com/comics

We'll use this information to determine if we are serving as many people as possible with our comics.

I'll expect to hear from you during the survey and, again, after we get some results in the next month or so that we can share them with you. Nothing drives traffic on my blog like conversation about our comics. Crossword puzzles come close, and I blogged about that last week.

If you are interested in what I've written before, and how people responded, here are some links:

Comics shown the door at more newspapers

"Dustin" comic gets write-up in USA Today

AUDIO: New comic strip, “Dustin”, coming to The Gazette Jan. 4. PLUS: Reader comments