Talk:It's Only a Game

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Four days a week

I won't edit the article as I have a strong WP:COI, as the publisher of both the book collection depicted and the new color collection just released. However, I should note that it is incorrect to say that IOAG ran four days a week; it was designed to run either three days during the week (as a panel) or on Sundays (with all three panels in a strip format), but no paper would do both, as it would just be running the same strips twice each week. --Nat Gertler (talk) 06:22, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

And now that someone's added some text about the Monday/Wednesday/Friday aspect, I'll note that I have yet to find a paper that actually used that option. So far, all I've found are ones that ran it on Sundays, although at least one chopped the bridge strip (and the mini-panel) off, presumably to run it by the bridge column. I've also found one that ran it in the Sunday magazine section, in black and white. So this three-day-a-week option may never have been used. --Nat Gertler (talk) 04:56, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Years later, I will note that I've found at least two papers that ran "It's Only a Game" as a Monday/Wednesday/Friday single panel - The Tucscon Daily Citizen and the Camden County Courier-Post. --Nat Gertler (talk) 17:50, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

October 1957

I see that someone has listed the start of the strip as being October, 1957. The initial Sunday version actually ran November 3, 1957, which is also the date that the Michaelis biography gives for its launch. I presume that the editor was assuming that there was a three-days-a-week version and that it would've run during the week before, rather than the week after, the Sunday version of the same panels. However, as I've said above, I've yet to find any sign that any paper actually ran it in the 3 days format, much less established the release date in relation to the Sundays. Barring some additional source being provided, this date to should be changed to November or the month eliminated entirely. I am avoiding doing so myself because I have a huge whomping conflict of interest (although I doubt anyone would see me benefiting from changing the date.) --Nat Gertler (talk) 18:56, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

And now Toughpigs (talk · contribs) has added in a specific date, and I don't doubt that that is the date that his source lists... but it's wrong. The debut was not November 10, but a week earlier, November 3, 1957. You can source that date to either edition of the It's Only A Game collections I've published, or to the Michaelis biography, or to this post from Jean Schulz at the Schulz Museum blog. (I won't change it myself for blatant WP:COI reasons.) --Nat Gertler (talk) 22:20, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi NatGertler, thanks for pointing that out. I fixed the article, and put in a note for anyone else who makes the same mistake. Thank you! -- Toughpigs (talk) 22:32, 4 July 2019 (UTC)