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* A few years ago, ''[[FoxTrot]]'' ended its weekday strips and went to Sunday strips only.
* ''[[Mark Trail]]'' uses its Sunday strips for [[PBS]]-style [[Edutainment|nature lessons.]] (Though it occasionally goes off-topic ''a la'' [[Network Decay]].)
* ''[[Slylock Fox (Comic Strip)|Slylock Fox]]'' turns its Sunday strips into entire miniature activity pages, with a Slylock mystery, a six-differences puzzle, a how-to-draw, and a featured drawing, with the throwaway panels being used for a gag involving two kids.
* The above case of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', which in addition to being the first strip in decades to be printed in an unbroken format in every paper, also became the reason many papers print some strips down the side of the page, one panel per row: Some papers, not wanting to use up the whole nearly-half-page on ''Calvin and Hobbes'', printed it and a few other strips at a smaller size, with one strip -- usually ''Doonesbury'', which is almost always nine identically-sized panels -- laid out down the side. This led to...
* ...''[[Non Sequitur (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|Non Sequitur]]'' being laid out in two different, seamless, unbreakable formats, the traditional two-row strip and with the panels stacked vertically. This is all done by the artist before submitting the finished product to the syndicate.
* ''[[Bloom County|Opus]]'' was also offered in an unbreakable format, and, unlike ''Calvin and Hobbes'', was initially required to only be printed full-size.
* ''Close to Home'' used to run two normal-sized strips on Sundays, but now runs one big one.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' featured a variety of material on Sundays - reader art, reader poems, a [[Spin-Off]] arc recasting the characters in a [[Victorian London|Victorian]] pulp serial [[Homage]], and a particularly long [[Fanfic]] called "A Brief Moment of Culture." (It was about [[Just for Pun|sentient yoghurt]].)
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]''
* ''[[Sinfest (Webcomic)|Sinfest]]''
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)|Sluggy Freelance]]'' used these for a while. For the past few years, however, Pete Abrams has greatly relaxed the strip's format; nowadays strips can vary from a single black-and-white panel to [[Infinite Canvas|two pages of full-colored, extra-size panels]], and anything inbetween.
* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle for Hire''
** It used to be that these were normal strips, just colored. Nowadays, they've moved into once-a-week, single-panel splash pages, often without dialogue.
* ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'' has extra-long Sunday strips. Recently these have become story-free "sketch Sundays", often serving as reminders of things that are important to the strip's mythology, but can't easily be worked into dialogue.
* No difference in size, but at one point, ''[[The Wotch]]'' was telling one story on weekdays and a different one on Sundays, the Sunday story being a continuation of its earlier [[Crossover]] with ''Accidental Centaurs''.
* In late November 2008, ''[[Least I Could Do]]'' recently added a Sunday update that is large format, a different art style and all flashback.
* ''[[And Shine Heaven Now (Webcomic)|And Shine Heaven Now]]'' usually sticks to three-panel strips from a given storyline during the week, but the Sunday Edition provides a space for [[Filk Song|Filk Songs]], [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot]] Q&As, one-shot gags, non-canon parodies, and other material that has nothing to do with the main story.
* The ''[[Unshelved (Webcomic)|Unshelved]] Book Club'' has appeared most Sundays since mid-2005.
* ''[http://squidrowcomics.com/ Squid Row]''
* ''[[Precocious (Webcomic)|Precocious]]''
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* ''[http://revfitz.com Mr. Square]'' Has a Monday strip featured in color in light of this tradition.
* ''[[International Comic Continuity|Nuparurocks' Comics]]'' has done this since its switch to a daily format in late 2008/early 2009.
* ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' started out like this, and followed the format for exactly 12 weeks. The next week onwards it moved on to a different format, and eventually abandoned the daily schedule as well.
 
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