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This article does not cite any references or sources. (January 2007) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. The examples and perspective in this article or discuss the issue on the talk page. 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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