Whenever I'd see a statistic like "Garfield is the most widely distributed comic strip in over 2500 papers worldwide", I always thought that seemed low. Surely if every major American city and town had a newspaper with comics in it, what about elsewhere? There are more cities outside of America that have newspapers, surely. However using the Newspapers.com archives, I was surprised to notice that while many Canadian papers had decent comic pages, in most British and Australian newspapers I looked at, the smaller towns had nothing and towns with millions of people like Glasgow, Scotland or Melbourne, Australia would have newspapers that only had perhaps 4 - 6 strips, not even quite taking half a page. I know the UK and Australia have comic strips of their own, but seeing the big city papers have 4 comic strips and 3 of them being American comics really puts the numbers in perspective. Are comic strips that North America centric?