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| - Subject matter and genres have ranged from adventure, detective and humor strips to dramatic strips with Soap opera situations, such as Mary Worth. A continuity strip employs a narrative in an ongoing storyline. Other strips offer a gag complete in a single episode, such as Little Iodine and Mutt and Jeff. In some cases, such as Buz Sawyer, the Sunday strip is a spin-off, focusing on different characters than the daily.
- A special format of Newspaper Comics. Instead of the three to five square panels afforded to the weekday episodes of a newspaper comic, the gaudy Sunday editions of newspapers often feature luxurious color episodes taking up half a page each. These larger comics allow the cartoonist to engage in longer, more elaborate gags than are possible in a typical weekday strip. Examples of Sunday Strip include:
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| - A special format of Newspaper Comics. Instead of the three to five square panels afforded to the weekday episodes of a newspaper comic, the gaudy Sunday editions of newspapers often feature luxurious color episodes taking up half a page each. These larger comics allow the cartoonist to engage in longer, more elaborate gags than are possible in a typical weekday strip. Sunday Strips, being quite clearly differentiated from their weekday counterparts, are often used for non-Canon stories, or even separate Story Arcs altogether. This is sometimes done because not all newspapers that carry the weekday strip carry its Sunday counterpart. It is also sometimes done because the artist produces the weekday and Sunday strips on separate schedules (since the Sunday ones need more lead time to set up for printing). More often, though, they simply continue the story being told in the weekday strips, or lack thereof. Newspaper Sunday strips use a version of Edited for Syndication. The top row of a strip may be discarded by papers that want to fit more strips onto a page, and therefore has to contain a literal throwaway gag which is usually unrelated to the rest of the strip, or at least the rest of the strip still makes sense if it's removed. The panels are also expected to fit into certain formats so they could be rearranged to accommodate different newspapers' layouts and/or take up even less space still. Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes protested against this practice and demanded (and won) the right to produce a Sunday strip with a fixed layout and no throwaway panels, but this was still an exception to the rule; it helped Watterson's case that he was, even by that point, looked upon by many as the benchmark for pushing the bounds of what a newspaper comic strip was capable of. Sunday strips are published a day early in Canada due to blue laws in the past that prohibited the publication of Sunday newspapers in most provinces, making the Saturday paper the biggest edition of the week. (These laws were mainly repealed after World War II, but most newspapers still publish the comics on Saturdays.) Back when newspaper comics were Serious Business, Americans living in border cities would often travel to Canada on Saturdays for the sole purpose of getting the Sunday strips a day before their neighbours. Despite not being newspaper comics, several Web Comics participate in this trope. After all, Sunday strips look a lot nicer than normal strips--but they take more time and trouble. Using both allows some beautiful strips while lowering the chance and severity of Schedule Slips; and because it's already done in print media, it's accepted on the 'Net. Examples of Sunday Strip include:
- Subject matter and genres have ranged from adventure, detective and humor strips to dramatic strips with Soap opera situations, such as Mary Worth. A continuity strip employs a narrative in an ongoing storyline. Other strips offer a gag complete in a single episode, such as Little Iodine and Mutt and Jeff. The Sunday strip is contrasted with the daily comic strip, published Monday through Saturday, usually in black and white. Many comic strips appear both daily and Sunday, in some cases, as with Little Orphan Annie, telling the same story daily and Sunday, in other cases, as with The Phantom, telling one story in the daily and a different story in the Sunday. Some strips, such as Prince Valiant appear only on Sunday. Others, such as Rip Kirby, are daily only and have never appeared on Sunday. In some cases, such as Buz Sawyer, the Sunday strip is a spin-off, focusing on different characters than the daily.
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