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45: 31: 220: 123:). These panels may all be of the same size, but many skilled cartoonists, such as Bill Watterson, Danny Vasquetto, Leonard Waldstein, Humphrey Powell, and Ginny Thomas vary the size and number of panels in each daily strip. The horizontal newspaper strip can also employ only a single panel, as sometimes seen in 303:
Early daily strips were large, often running the entire width of the newspaper, and were sometimes three or more inches high. Initially, a newspaper page included only a single daily strip, usually either at the top or the bottom of the page. By the 1920s, many newspapers had a comics page on which
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many strips were collected together. Over decades, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller; until by the year 2000, four standard daily strips could fit in an area once occupied by a single daily strip.
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There are two major styles used in newspaper comics, single panels and strips. Single panels are usually not broken up (though this is not always the case), and thus lack continuity. Comics such as
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was often displayed in a two-panel format with the first panel showing some deceptive, pretentious, unwitting or scheming human behavior and the second panel revealing the truth of the situation.
92:. A panel consists of a single drawing depicting a frozen moment. When multiple panels are present, they are often, though not always, separated by a short amount of space called a gutter. 211:. In this context, panels are contrasted with the more common comic strip format, which consists of an actual "strip" of multiple drawings that tell a story in sequence. 340:. They appear Monday through Saturday; until 2003 there were no Sunday papers in Flanders. In the last decades, they have been switched from black-and-white to color. 159:
consisting of a single drawing; the usage is a shortened form of "single-panel comic". In contrast to multi-panel strips, which may involve extended dialogue in
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are all single panels. Strips, on the other hand, are generally longer and shaped into a rectangle. Examples of strips include
207: 36: 413: 163:, a typical panel comic has only one spoken line, printed in a caption beneath the panel itself. Many panel comics are 478: 275: 296: 129: 239: 183: 400: 164: 107: 336: 440: 201: 229: 195: 257: 251: 189: 30: 44: 219: 330: 160: 144: 472: 463: 149: 89: 355:
Saraceni, Mario. The Language of Comics. London; New York, N.Y: Routledge, 2003, p.7
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is an individual frame, or single drawing, in the multiple-panel sequence of a
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continued as a daily panel even after it expanded into a Sunday strip,
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NEA Syndicate experimented briefly with a two-tier daily strip,
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Index

Comic panel

Captain Future

comic strip
comic book
graphic novel
daily strips
Doonesbury
For Better or For Worse
Garfield
Dilbert
Wiley Miller
Non Sequitur
yonkoma
Azumanga Daioh
graphic novel
cartoon
speech balloons
syndicated
daily
comic strips
The Far Side
Dennis the Menace
The Family Circus
Ziggy
Herman
Ripley's Believe It or Not

Winsor McCay

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