The Menomonee Falls Gazette
| Type | weekly |
|---|---|
| Format | tabloid newspaper |
| Founder(s) | Jerry Sinkovec and Mike Tiefenbacher |
| Publisher | Street Enterprises |
| Editor-in-chief | Mike Tiefenbacher (1971–1976) |
| Founded | December 13, 1971 |
| Language | English |
| Ceased publication | March 3, 1978 |
| City | Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin |
| Country | U.S. |
| Circulation | 1,300 (August 1976) |
| Sister newspapers | The Menomonee Falls Guardian |
The Menomonee Falls Gazette (subtitled "The international newspaper for comic art fans") was a weekly tabloid published in the 1970s by Street Enterprises that reprinted newspaper comic strips from United States and UK. Comic strips reprinted in this publication normally fell into the adventure and soap opera category. (Humor strips were collected in a sister publication, The Menomonee Falls Guardian.) Typically, a full week's worth of a particular strip was collected on a single page of The Gazette. Although The Gazette was available via newsstand distribution, the bulk of their sales came from subscriptions.
Street Enterprises was the partnership of publisher Jerry Sinkovec and editor Mike Tiefenbacher, who ran the operation out of a storage trailer in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Fans of adventure comic strips, which by the early 1970s had mostly disappeared from American newspapers, they started The Menomonee Falls Gazette to keep the genre alive.
Contributing writers to The Menomonee Falls Gazette included R. C. Harvey. The publication is popular among comic strip collectors. Back issues are frequently put up for sale on eBay.
A precursor to The Menomonee Falls Gazette was Edwin Aprill's Cartoonist Showcase (1968–1971), which published reprints of Tarzan, Secret Agent Corrigan, Modesty Blaise, and James Bond.
The first issue of The Menomonee Falls Gazette was published December 13, 1971.
In the fall of 1972, The Gazette had 780 subscribers in 47 U.S. states, 10 countries, Midway Island, and Puerto Rico. (By August 1976 the circulation of The Gazette was up to 1,600.)
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