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Comic strips can cover a wide range of formats, topics, characters and artistic styles. ''[[The Far Side]]'' and ''[[The Family Circus]]'' are one-panel gag strips. ''[[Bloom County]]'' and ''[[Pogo (comic strip)|Pogo]]'', while light-hearted on the surface, were thick with [[Story Arc]]s and [[Strawman Political|political commentary]]. Other strips, like ''[[Peanuts]]'' and ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', delightfully portray the experiences of childhood, and thus have broad, long-term appeal. There have been countless serialized adventure strips like ''[[The Phantom (comic strip)|The Phantom]],'' ''[[Flash Gordon (comic strip)|Flash Gordon]],'' ''[[Prince Valiant (Comic Strip)|Prince Valiant]]'' and ''[[Dick Tracy (comic strip)|Dick Tracy]]''; soap opera/slice-of-life strips like ''[[Comic Strip/Gasoline Alley|Gasoline Alley]]'' and ''Rex Morgan M.D.'', and strips that fall in between, like ''[[Little Orphan Annie]]''.
Compared to other media, newspaper comics can have incredibly [[Long Runners|long tenures]]. New ''[[Peanuts]]'' strips appeared daily for over 49 years. ''[[Doonesbury]]'' has been running for 40 years and ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'' has been coming out for over 30 years. Neither show any signs of stopping. Even more impressively, ''[[Blondie (comic strip)|Blondie]]'' has run for well over 75 years, ''[[Comic Strip/Gasoline Alley|Gasoline Alley]]'' has run over 90 years, and most impressively of all ''[[Comic Strip/The Katzenjammer Kids|The Katzenjammer Kids]]'' has been running since 1897! A 10-year run is considered tremendous for a television show, but when ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', ''[[The Far Side]]'' and ''[[Bloom County]]'' each ended production after a decade, it seemed far too soon.
On the flip side, one of the reasons why [[Web Comics]] are 5–10 years ahead of Web-based indie music distribution (and 15–20 years ahead of non-corporate Web movies) is that "making it big" in sequential art has been traditionally defined as "being able to support a middle-class lifestyle without a day job". Only about 10 people in the whole 20th century got seriously stinking rich drawing [[Newspaper Comics]], and of those only two or three achieved actual ''stardom''.
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