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This article is about the sequential art form. For other uses, see Comic strip (disambiguation).
A comic strip is a newspaper comic strip that appears in newspapers Monday through Saturday, as contrasted with a Sunday strip which appears on Sunday. Daily strips are usually in black and white, though a few newspapers, beginning in the later part of the twentieth century. The Yellow Kid is usually credited as being the very first newspaper comic strips appeared in America in the early '40s, Don Flowers' Modest Maidens was so admired by William Randolph Hearst that he lured Flowers away from the Associated Press and to King Features Syndicate by doubling the cartoonist's salary, and renamed the feature Glamor Girls to avoid legal action by the AP. (The latter continued to publish Modest Maidens as drawn by Jay Allen, who aped Flowers' style to a tee.)
The majority of traditional newspaper comic strips are syndicated; that is, a syndicate hires people to write and draw the strip, and then distributes the strip to many newspapers for a fee. A few newspaper strips are exclusive to one newspaper. For example The Louisiana Purchase by John Chase ran only in the New Orleans Times Picayune, or with one strip on a tabloid page, as in the Chicago Daily News. When Sunday strips began to include adventure stories. Buck Rogers, Tarzan and The Adventures of Tintin were some of the genre's most popular strips. Examples include Little Orphan Annie (drawn and plotted by Harold Gray from 1924-44 and thereafter by a succession of artists including Leonard Starr and Andrew Pepoy), and Terry and The Pirates (started by Milton Caniff in 1934 and picked up by a string of successors, most notably George Wunder.)
A business-driven variation on the "switch" has sometimes led to the same feature continuing under a different name. In one case, in the early years of the twentieth century, published them in color. The major formats are strips, which are wider than
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2 Dec 2008 at 5:25pm 
Comic Book Bin |
![]() Jesse Reklaw's Bluefuzz
Comic Book Bin, Canada - 6 hours ago
Throw in a calendar of events, maybe a horoscope and movie listings, and these comic strips can carry a paper week after week. Hey, it can hold true for the ... |
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1 Dec 2008 at 4:12am 
Digital Arts Online |
![]() Jon Burgerman
Digital Arts Online, UK - Dec 1, 2008
If I was only designing characters for comic strips I?d get a bit tired of that, but I do characters, and my work has appeared on T-shirts, wallpaper, toys, ... |
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1 Dec 2008 at 12:11am
![]() Property of the Past, Dec. 1, 2008
St. Joseph News-Press, MO - Nov 30, 2008
Create your own fictional character by designing a comic strip. Read the comic strips for a few days to understand how characters communicate through words, ... |
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19 Nov 2008 at 8:20am 
Promo Magazine |
![]() King Features Creates Digital Funny Pages
Promo Magazine, NY - Nov 19, 2008
King Features?s King Digital division debuted the daily digital incarnations of more than 60 of its comic strips this week with the Albany Times-Union, ... |
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17 Nov 2008 at 2:28am
![]() This Bruno Is A Barbarian
Comixtalk, AZ - Nov 17, 2008
If your strip is fun to write and draw, chances are, it'll be fun to read as well! Read your favorite comic strips with an analytical eye. ... |
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17 Nov 2008 at 2:20am
![]() Paper puts 2 new 'Pearls' in comics
Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription), SC - Nov 17, 2008
What Scott and Kirkman do plan to continue drawing is a comic strip that speaks to the universal parenting experience, or as Scott put it, "Every day, ... |
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12 Nov 2008 at 1:05pm 
New York Daily News |
![]() Brooklyn roomies create on-line comic strip
New York Daily News, NY - Nov 12, 2008
The strip?s diverse cast of characters, such as a Puerto Rican family and a set of Euro-Dominican twins, draw on the creators? own mix. ... |
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